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I am wondering if anyone can give me information about Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessments for children. We currently live in the UK but are looking at a move to Melbourne, my husband is Australian and wants to return home, therefore our children are also Australian as have citizenship and passports.

 

Our youngest daughter is on a waiting list for a full Autism assessment as has some indicators and has been through an initial triage through the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services. At the moment the waiting lists for full assessments are up to 18 to 20 months and we are only 4 months into our wait.

 

My daughter is at mainstream school and coping well with this. I was wondering if anyone had supported their child through an autism assessment in Australia and how long the waiting lists are for this, also what health services are available to you?

We gave up on the public process (after 4 years) and went through private to get it assessed.

On the subject of Australia Post.... perhaps if the CEO didn't draw such a stupidly insanely high salary there might not be such a problem.... I know he supposedly donates half of his salary to charity.... but which charity? It certainly isn't a charity that supports all of Australia.... just one that is very selective in its support.

 

The service that Australia Post offer has been declining for years.... I received mail today (4 January 2016) that had been posted in Queensland on 12 December... mail that had been posted in rural WA on 14 December.... mail that had been posted in UK on 2 December.... mail that had been posted in Canberra on 6 December..... Why does it take so long for this mail to arrive anywhere????? And what other mail is sitting somewhere that I don't actually receive?

Anything out of state it would seem is double checked if it is international or domestic

At different ends of the spectrum you have those thinking the growth will go on and on and people will just have to pay. At the other end you have some in cant believe the disconnect between income and pricing and logically foretell a correction.

The middle see the disconnect but also see that if you don't have to sell you can ride out the correction - in what form this will take may be different from before with so many ingrained in a basket of house hold eggs.

There are also sub sects within these spectrums - those with logical thought and ability to enter the housing market and those with no ability just frustration. Like wise the people in property who were smart and not just following the market but buying the right property ie location and land value not a mcmansion miles away from instrastructure and with land of little real value.

Have I been buying land? Yes? Residential = Hell No, income generating commercial and agriculture yes, am I looking at it from a capital gain perspective - No, Income generation Yes. The future will be great for those with passive income, for those working 60 hours + say good bye to weekends as you start needing 80 hours to keep up.

When in doubt you start asking how many of the so called high earners can survey for more than 12 weeks if they lost their jobs

They in turn ask for the figure to be lowered to 4 weeks in line with their pay

So the idea with the cherry being popped is not a sexual one I'm afraid.???

 

tisk tisk

Not quite right. Share dividends are also subject to withholding tax for foreign investors (which includes Australian citizens residing overseas). As for a managed fund, all I can say is - it depends!

I thought foreign investors received dividends gross or in other words with out franking credits?

Here in Singapore dividend income is tax free

Emotional link rather than a reality gripped market

Let them eat at Bunning's

Farms are going cheaper and cheaper - great time to start looking (Bench marking) and getting ready to buy

I'd do it for the sake of re living those memories

Party until 4am with packers arriving at 7am

Pack the passports and tickets in which box? of 20 foot container?

Crash the rental car at tullamarine due to sleep deprivation (they should not supply new movies on flights)

Get robbed at short stay apartment (after being robbed legitimately by hotel for first week)

You think that submitting yourself and your family to being filmed at a vulnerable time over a year-long period for the entertainment of the general public and the profit of a nameless production company should be done for nothing but help and reassurance? :rolleyes:

 

You've got to be kidding!

Just think of the endorsements and sponsorship possibilities

"When discussing quotes with shipping companies don't forget to mention..."

Keeps NZ beaches empty from crowds and flies

Estate agents are supposed to add the negotiation element to the equation

But how much of that in the light of current markets?

Big boys are banned from farmers markets

I sense blood in the water with woolworths

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11577630

In addition to the annual 35k the employer will pay an annual levy of 1,000

Went out to get an avo and came back without- $3.75 for a miserable skinny specimen. Too much.

Range in price here currently from $0.45 to $2.40 (wholesale)

Unfortunately they can't stop the EU lot.

'Apply a bit of Greece and it might come of the rails'

We are 60 years old and are therefore subject to age discrimination so we are searching for an affordable way in to be with my daughter.

Do you need to work in Australia? What about coming as a visitor (6 months) and using NZ as a weekend getaway or Singapore (as your choosing Perth) to go out of the country to establish another 6 month time period?

Problem for Australia will be workforce sitting on labour costs far above other nations. Thus reducing its competitiveness in addition to its existing poor efficiency ratings.

These property prices have been established on years of a luck driven economy

What happens when its no longer luck and hard work is required? What happens when major companies start restructuring their knowledge capital to ensure IP remains in lower tax base countries?

Forget the peaks and troughs of booming and bust markets, what about long term ?

So shortly a café filled with 6 figure accountants trying to work out how to operate the self serve coffee machine?

Solicitors debating how to solve a complicated baby delivery

Architects trying to put up a brace wall while maintaining one hand on the contract the other on the calculator

Pilots running back to the controls after serving croissants and coffee to the above

Meanwhile whose fixing me toilet?

Supermarkets have been putting prices up substantially after new year for past few years. That's what I have noticed anyway.

Think the logic is they know people coming back from holiday need to stock up and have been in holiday mode (including paying inflated resort prices)

So should calm down again in Feb

Trades have had a good time for past decade but they need to ensure they have made some decent hay.

Just remember the arrogant sentiment they have when the next 457 debate appears

Got two pretty similar quotes from OSS and Kent from Brisbane to UK - both seem nice enough, can anyone give any personal recommendations?

 

thx for any replies

Have experienced both with no issues

Both had good names and were part of the international network I think it was PSS that we used from UK to OZ and Kent/OSS completed the Australian pick up drop off

2017 - 2018 first wave of change for mortgages. Movement from interest only to include principal payments

Tightening fiscal policy in China / Hong Kong later in 2016

With low interest watch out for higher hidden taxation or indirect taxation.

2019 realization by major employers that location need not be city based

- Technology driven (video conference, email, smart phone - you could be in next room or floor)

- Reduced staffing (why maintain a office for 300 with only 30)

- Performance orientation the outcome rather than seat watching (if you perform better at home, go home)

- Consumer migration (forced economically initially) city to rural or less dense areas), then followed by the masses

Movement in companies based on tax regimes not cost of labor

Can we shut the door now though? We need Trump and his wall building expertise....

Internal and external walls?

We just bought our first property in Oz and have been trying to settle into our new area. Everyone's fine and things are OK. The only thing bugging us was the house next door always has random cars on their front grass n nature strip and comings n goings all night long. Their kids often watch us over the back fence but I just thought they're just having a nosy at the new neighbours. So what. Then my toddler pointed out "lizards" in our garden on the end of a fishing line and kind of plastic pole. It's a bunch of dead rats hanging over our fence. How disgusting. I was thinking of returning them but to be honest they seem kind of intimidating. My husband says maybe the kids thought it would be funny n if I react they'll get a kick out of it n do it again...

 

I'm just sick. How horrible. Wishing we'd never bought here after being so excited that we actually got to buy our own place. What can I do without causing a neighbour war? We've only lived here a few wks n done nothing that could have annoyed the neighbours to make them want to do this?

What area of Melbourne?

I don't deny tourism is important in creating jobs it does. Just generally low paid jobs. Regardless of locality. NZ wages are very low and costs high in comparison with Australia at the moment. Hence the long standing popularity of Australia as a place to work.

 

Switzerland is very much a brain driven country which provides a very high standard of living. It is highly attractive to professionals from not exactly poor Germany, due to higher pay scales and good pensions. Live in Germany and work in CH and get the benefits from both worlds. A rather unique country though Singapore is sometimes referred to as the Switzerland of Asia.

Labour market is in a state of flux. Seeming secure or high income of accountants is changing with market rates sliding to sub $40 per hour as technology and requirements change.

Tourism will change as the information value increases and scarcity of labour increases its value.

when I say six it sounds like something else lol

No idea what you mean LOL

What time is it? ten past six?

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