jason d 82

no need to worry, at its worst...your children would spend a long period of time in front of computer all day at it's best, minecraft actually encourage people to be creative think of it as the lego for 90's kids

im not following here are we talking about australian news or indian news? given that what happened around the world could be far worse what's happening right now in australia but as we currently lived in australia...where as you mentioned "the most successful multi-cultural country" kinda sad that no one defended the couple from the racial abuse isnt it? bystander mentality is getting dominant lately in australia and again...it happens everywhere in australia recently http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235817/Bus-passengers-gang-threaten-kill-French-tourists-Australian-bus-dont-speak-English.html

and here i am, thinking want to move away from sydney to melbourne :\

was rejected when i tried to apply a credit card because having a bridging visa apparently is not enough assurance that i would pay while i was a customer for 5+ years banking with them and working full time silly banks...was going to give them money but rejected it

sorry for the cynicism... but seeing today that Cat 5 onshore Family sponsored is not looking good, i viewed this so called "council" exist for the sole purpose of getting cheap labour for business why would chris bowen grant PR to people who already waited 3+ years for a PR and get an industry sanctioned minimum wages, where they could get cheap labour for hopefuls of PR since no one wants to employ them as a full time worker that might have to go home after 4 year no wonder australia still avoiding the GFC, since we got so many supplies of cheap labour yes i know im ranting my frustration he could be misguided...but how would you feel if your life hangs on the balance for 3+ years without certainty?

i still can't figure out how the australian government works we have in one hand, people who willing to go through red tape and apply for a PR but told to wait for years and years just because the visa subclass is literally at the bottom of the barrell, meanwhile working and paying taxes all these time on the other hand, people like OP who is an australian citizen who want to go back to live and work and PAYING TAXES in australia, but got so caught up in red tape that took 2 years for the problem to be solved meanwhile this happens http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/carr-slams-high-court-as-asylum-bill-starts-to-sink-20120628-213sf.html soooo...we pay taxes for them to play on human lives such as ours too?

i heard canada still an easy place to get in i'm still holding it in because i've been waiting for 3+ years and hate moving half a globe if im a fresh graduate, i probably go to canada by now to try my luck there the wage is similar but everything is cheaper in canada compared to australia

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didnt the immigration have a limit of 10K australian dollars in a form of money or physical items? but maybe they're a bit lenient in regards to migration travel tho

here's what i gather after living in australia for 10+ years always always assume whatever you signing up for is either a 12/24 months contract unless stated otherwise and always the general rule for myself "if in doubt...ask", if you still doubting things...ask for a digital copy of the contract even if the "no contract" is clearly stated, sometimes they sneakily put a clause that if you want to cancel, you need to notify 30 days prior so if you decide you want to cancel a certain subscription on february after you paid the bills, well you still obliged to pay for the march bill and it doesn't hurt to send an e-mail reminding them that you are still going forward with the cancellation I learn it the hard way that for some reason my cancellation request is not "found" in my account details

that is why ladies and gentlemen...some people should not procreate since their IQs is so low that even basic common sense miss them completely oh about bogan on wheels...experienced it as well once me and my brother just got back from 7 hours overnight flight, both of us in a bad mood and just want to get home as quickly as possible and rest while my brother driving, this bogan basically tail gated our car on the left lane...mind you...we're driving at the left lane, as far as i know people usually overtake using the right lane but no...this particular bogan want to overtake someone from the left lane when my brother finally give way by moving to the right lane...the bogan have the gut wound down the window and shout something that i could not say in this forum i was prepared to smash his kneecaps with a tire iron at that point if he dared to pull over and making a fuss over it

dont use slangs just use simple english words that you think a 5 year old child or a 80 years old fellow would understand what you trying to say dont get fooled by the relaxed situation the tester trying to make you comfortable, it's still a test consider this as a job interview

with fuel pushing 1.50 a litre, as long as the company pays for it, i reckon you ought to be fine a bit worried on how much the company take for the accomodation tho

gotta love people's double standards

different cultures have different way of things to say i remembered a comedian by the name of stephen k amos rants about in australia you could go to a supermarket and get a "coon" cheese