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I had to do similar as I washed my passport :confused:. There was a form to fill out and send to them. It was a pretty easy process

I'm aware it's much shorter on PR (we were told 3 months) but for anyone without PR then it's 12 months maximum on a foreign license.

Not sure if this has been mentioned as I haven't read every post but I was told by a police officer (it still might be wrong) that you can only drive for 12 months on a foreign licence and if you here longer then you HAVE to apply for an Aussie license OR stop driving.

Head down, arse up for the duration needed. It's crap but if he sacks you what you gonna do then?

Why not, if you want to live in an adopted country then you should adopt that countries traditions and values.

Moneycorp is the way, I moved over a very small amount last week and the headline exchange rate was £1 to $1.90 and through Moneycorp I got $1.892 so they only charged me less than a cent per £.

I know people can do this but I have absolutely no idea how lol

Why would the fact that you can buy a house give you a visa? It maybe possible to get a visa through having substantial funds, I don't know, but why because you can buy a house. Why not, I can afford to buy a boat, or a car or a whatever? I'd be very careful about putting info on the internet that you have substantial funds and are looking to use them to get into Australia, there are some very clever and manipulating people out there who will promise you the world and leave you with nothing! I think your best move would be to get in touch with a MARA register migration agent who can give you the low down on your chances. At 22 you should be able to get a WHV if you haven't already had one, that could potentially give you 2 years in Oz.

Don't get out for a wee because you'll be eaten alive by every flying insect alive! It's a long drive, don't pass a servo, pull in at every single one and fill up. If memory serves me correctly there were 5. Take plenty of water in case you break down and something to cover the windows.

Self pack was a definite no no, everything we packed was unpacked and then replaced by the removalists. Their reason held water as far as we were concerned, they said it was them that was exporting/ importing the stuff not us. They had to know exactly what was being sent, we could have hidden anything in the boxes if we were that way inclined.

That information is not what we've been advised recently. http://www.caradvice.com.au/308969/isofix-seats-legalised-for-australia/ In fact this website says this: The changes, which were detailed more than a year ago, specify that ISOFIX seats will now be legal to use in vehicles in Australia. However, the use of foreign ISOFIX seats remains technically illegal due to a lack of an upper tether anchorage. The Australian standard ISOFIX rules allow seats to use lower attachment connectors locked into ISOFIX low anchorages in motor vehicles that have them fitted. They will also be available in a similar system to the LATCH points in American cars, where the connectors are not hard-fixed to the seat itself. The rules will effectively mean that while ISOFIX seats are now legal, only those sold in Australia will be compliant with the new rules, considering ISOFIX or LATCH seats in Europe or North America do not require and are not fitted with the top tether connector. it would be interesting to get clarification from someone on this!

Oz car seats have to have "top tether" which is a strap from car seat over the top of the seat and attached to the back of the seat. Our UK seat was ISO-fix but no top tether so we couldn't use it here.

I lived in a hilltop village on the outskirts of Halifax, unlimited BB with speeds of 36Mbps download and 12Mbps upload for £15 a month. North Perth in a new suburb $79 a month 50Gb limit download 12Mbps max and upload of 0.5Mbps. No comparison at all

Unlimited data??? Haha wait until you find out how 3rd world the broadband is and how in a suburb thatsnonly 15 yr old there's isn't the capacity to serve every house. It's also very poor and very expensive. but that's not why I'm here

The best is also the most expensive, Telstra. I use vodafone and get unlimited calls and texts plus 3Gb data and 300 minutes of free international calls for $50. It's a sim only plan so you need your own phone and I don't know if India is covered for the international calls as I ring the UK. When I leave built up areas it can get patchy with coverage but that's been twice in 7 months so I'm fine with that.

Hope it works out for you

I am a global warming/ climate change sceptic, I think the real reason they are pushing the agenda so much is because of it's revenue raising potential. Al Gore has made multi millions for himself off the back of it, whilst flying around the world in a private jet! I don't care what data anyone throws out there, at most any records we have may go back a hundred years or so. When they take samples from the ice caps that may go back a few thousand years and that data is open to interpretation. The earth 4.5 billion years old so 10,000years pales into insignificance. The Earth has been through so many cycles of warming up and cooling down, the Sahara Desert used to be lush and green but not anymore. We as humans are getting ideas way above our station if we think we will alter the path of the Earth long term. That said I'm also an advocate of renewable energy as the earth has got finite resources and we cannot keep using them at the rate we are as we'll have nothing left for future generations. The idea that we are recycling our rubbish by throwing it into different coloured bins is laughable, recycling is reusing.

I think they need to be under 50 to get a skilled visa!

Surely it needs to be inspected in WA and not NSW if he's want to rego it in WA

It was global warming when it was first realised that there was extensive tax raising potential until so many holes were punched in it. So it was changed to climate change, which in itself means nothing as the climate is forever changing. Let's revisit this thread in 25 years and see what's being said then. I'm old enough to remember the alarmists shouting that we were entering another ice in the 70's. I'm adult enough to believe what I want, not what the alarmist tell me I have to and I don't try to belittle people who don't agree with me

Wow so they had global warming back in the 1920's too, gives credence to the theory they are using it to raise revenue!

It certainly is the hardest part of the process. I've been told that I'm a hard faced so and so, that I'm emotionally dead (lol by an ex), then fact is I keep it all in. I bawled my eyes out at the final goodbyes and it wasn't for me or my partner, it was for my daughter and her grandparents! 7 months on and my dads partner still gets visibly upset every time we speak on skype. But we have done this for ours and our daughters future along with future generations of our family. We know we have done the right thing and half way around the world isn't as far as it used to be! Good Luck

I used an agent for the skills part (I'm a carpenter) I then did the state sponsorship and then the EOI myself in under 10 mins, it's really easy with explanatory notes all the way. I did the full application in about 45 mins and sat on it for a few days thinking it couldn't be that easy, after checking it a few times I finally sent it. We've been in Perth for 7 month now:wink: Form 80 is easy too, it just asks the same questions that you've already answered a million times previously. The hard part is the question that asks you to state every country you've been to in the last 10 years, but not everyone gets asked for that.

Perth is not regional so you cannot do regional work there

I'm not sure why you think it would have a bearing on your visa application.