RioMarina
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Hi All
I was gratefully awarded a 1Year RRV last November and presently based in the UK. I have tried to return to OZ, but have been unable to secure flights due to Covid restrictions and my visa expiry date (Nov21) is quickly getting closer. Is there any other persons in the same situation with any solution to this problem or any agents that could help me either return or have experience of getting an extension. I have now been out of OZ for more than 5 years now, so I am worried that I would not be allowed to apply for a new RRV. Many Thanks Rio.
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I know you should not look back but reading posts from people in the past makes you realise that no one has a clue about the future so why try to predict it! or maybe this previous thread did have a bit of hindsight!!!!
http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/money-finance/147645-australian-economy-collapse-30.html
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Must be a pain in the ass to be a first time home owner. Sure interest rates are lower, but that may only be for the first few years depending on the economy. In the meantime most will need a huge mortgage on a possibly overrated house price. If the market crashes and houses lose value up to 30% or even more, you may have lost your entire deposit and more. On the other hand, people have been talking about a propery bubble for many years, but it hasn't happened.
So what should first time home buyers do? Wait? Buy?
This maybe the answer to your question!
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We are only two months away from it being three years since you first called the imminent collapse of Australia's economy...
Yes, If you are making me look back, not a bad prediction. If only our wiser men and ladies had vision and conviction, this could of been maybe different. Peachy Ald lad, you can't argue I was pretty accurate after what was said by the treasury. I didnt know at the time for sure, but the signs were there for all to see.
Shame you feel as though I was negative rather than just being factual and opening a discussion to help others coming over know what was in store. That's what I thought this forum was for. Get over it Ald lad and look to the future to see whats in store. Stop looking backwards.
Ps I was only commenting on a previous post but again get attacked from yourself. You make people want to quit this forum forever. I hope all that come over benefit and add to the strengths of Australia. They also need to know what the economy is like.
see ya Ald lad
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Dunnit want to make you spit??!!
Could have bought land at Avalon Drive, Mandurah in 1963 for £250 :cry:
Alan Bond bought 2 side by side in Perth, about the same time; that's how he started off...
Cheers, Bobj.
Or in a more accurate context the beginning of the end!:wink:
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Tp put it in perspective. Australian debt as a % of GDP is 27%. UK is 96%, Germany is 84% and the USA is 83%. Greece is 153% and Ireland is 129%.
Don Argus warns of debt, bubble bombs
- by:Adam Creighton
- From:The Australian
- May 24, 201412:00AM
RISING debt risks undermining living standards at the same time that stockmarket bubbles pose a threat to savings, one of Australia’s most eminent businessmen has warned.
Don Argus, former chairman of corporate giants BHP and Brambles, said Australia’s economic growth would suffer if Australia’s total debt, now 220 per cent of GDP, climbed much further.
Just sayin!
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I take it the glass is half empty for you then.
According to http://www.rba.gov.au/, the rate of inflation is 2.9%. If that's "through the roof", you need to get the building inspector round.
But as for living in a bubble, I think there is some truth in that. Not an economic housing bubble, set to go pop. I mean an insular perspective. Petals wrote:
"Aus will always survive because the peoople who came to live here, pioneers and convicts were tough and their descendants are tough and resilient people."
That may have been true 50 years ago, but the latest generation have gotten very used to sitting back and letting the state/system provide for them. Sure, not all of them lie on the couch all day, but there's a widespread notion that all you have to do is get the education, go to uni (or learn a trade) and that a career will be handed on a plate. That an inner city flat is within everyone's reach. That the "quarter acre block" dream is the way it should be for everyone. And you can see the resentment every day on forums. Either it's the fault of the 457's, or the Chinese buying houses.
It's not going to all come crashing down, but there will be a change in society over the next decade or so. We've gone from a nation "all in it together" to a nation of "boundless growth". The next stage will probably not be quite so positive.
:wink: You lot crack me up.
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Australian inflation has been fairly stable and consistant for the last 10 years WTF are you talking about?
And just to add inflation has consistantly been below the average wage increase.
I'm sure if anyone cares to read your post history all you are bothered about (hoping for) is a reccession/bursting of the Oz bubble :wink:
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We are moving to Aus but are concerned about rising prices food housing etc we lived in Ireland when it collapsed.Would hate to move to Aus and go through it all again . There is also currently a recruitment freeze on government jobs in WA is this normal ?.I find it hard to comprehend how prices and wages can just keep on rising. Will this have an effect on the mining industry exporting Etc
Theres nothing more sure that Australia is in a bubble. Inflation has gone through the roof over the past years and has been left to be uncontrolled. The dollar is too high, house prices too high and wages too high. Its a global competition and when you look at costs to produce anything or sell anything in Australia they dwarf every country. Totally uncompetative globally and for sure something will give, It already has. Anyones guess for the timing but its stacked to the downside. Recession coming again soon.:wink:
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So OH home on R&R so took a little walk to the beach , it was ever so crowded
Quite ironic. We call it doggy beach! because its got that much dog crap on it.
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How can you say im complaining about standards??????? What i am complaining about is the lack of information available for the correct route to gaining your A license. When i did the Vetasses in 2008, the Assesor of the practical exam even told me how much of a nightmare it was gonna be to find out what your next step is. Vetasses sent me a letter to say you will need to do gap training at a college to get your level 3 (if you went down that route). Most colleges i emailed in Queensland had never even heard of Vetasess, never mind what was to be done next for the gap training. Yes the standards are high and we obviously need to be re-trained to there regulations and way of doing things. Im happy with that and willing to do it. But There s little clarity.
I have a friend who applied to energy safe who in turn told him he needed to do gap training. He went to CET to do his 2 week course. when he completed the course he asked the Lecturer about the gap training in which he replied "what gap training" 3 weeks later he got his A licence from the very same place that told him he would need to do gap training???!!
maybe you can tell us what you had to do and then i can add a like to the few you have.
No probem I had to show my competence as an electrician to enter Australia. On landing I then had to prove my elecrical status through ATR as an electrical mechanic then I had to sit an Exam theory and practical and then I got the A grade. Now employed by Energy safe as a licencing officer. Good luck
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Hi Pal
Dont quote me on this but i ve heard recently that you can apply to energy safe from the uk. They send you the acceptance letter. you then have a restricted license and have to do a log book which gets signed of by an A grade electrician while you do different types of work. Once the log book is done you can then progress to do the gap training at one of the colleges such as CET then once you succesfully pass that you can apply for your A license. this process can take between 6months to a year??? very strange process....
The other process i ve heard is that you apply to energy safe and receive your acceptance letter, go straight to the two week course at CET or other college then when passed you get your a license in a few weeks???? Dont really know whats going of mate. Theres so many conflicting storys on it that im affraid you probably wont find out until we start the process over there mate.
When its all done and we have our A grades we can meet up get very drunk and laugh at all the bull **** we have had to go through to get out there and start bloody work!!!
If anyone who know s the process can clarify on here how it actually is, I would be bloody dam grateful. Me heads a shed!!:wacko:
Why complain about local standards when your coming from far a field. Respect what the australian authorities do as this is a system that recognises proper electricians who have had proper training, proper apprentices and a standard that has to be met. It took me 5 months to get my licence but you cannot complain about the standard that has to be met. By the way I have recently heard that electricians that came here 3 months ago still do not have the required A grade card.
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hey karl ...have u tried getting into the smaller minesites ?? my o/h did 6 months in boddington ....and then applied through an agency for working up north ....he is now in hope downs .....[newman ] .....and earning those big bucks u talk about lol ....it does take time and a lot of money to get all the right licences etc .....but he has found that its not what u know but who u know .....saying that he has been an excavator operator for nearly 30 yrs so does have a bit of savvy about him ....stick at it ...im sure summit will come along ....if u want any contacts feel free to pm him
cheers mrs keily
Thanks Rio
We made it to Perth!
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Great to hear of your successful move. Could I ask how you managed to obtain flights. I have registered with Defat but have not heard anything. My visa expires in November and i am at my wits end trying to secure flights. .Good luck and I would very much appreciate any shared experience of getting flights. Rio