maverick79

We are planning to move to Melbourne on 189 visas around the start of October this year from the Falkland Islands. Despite reading the millions of education websites could people clarify the age for school/kindy etc please? I get confused as my son has just turned 5 last week so i think he's supposed to start school (is this prep or year 1?) at the end of January....he's currently due to finish his school reception year (we follow the UK system) in august. Trying to figure out if I'm supposed to get him into kindy or just wait until the Aussie school year starts and have him in regular childcare until then while i work. thanks

Thank you for the reply, funnily enough i was looking at this rental a few days ago. with regards to the job situation we are looking now and starting the process of getting in contact with recruitment agencies etc. when we visited sydney in 2015 an agent told us that we had to be in the country for a better chance of securing interviews and that applying for jobs outside of australia was pointless as the employer would have to prove why they were not employing someone already in the country...would you agree or is it worth us going for everything that might be suitable now?

We (me, hubby & 5 year old) are due to move to Australia around October this year on 189 visas already validated. Currently thinking we might try Melbourne first and if hubby gets a job then we'll stay (his job is more city based - internal auditor - whereas mine is more commonly found anywhere-podiatrist). We're in a position where we can arrive 'on holiday' for about 4-6 weeks so if no job happens we can move to a different city. Thought i'd put this out to see if anyone has advice on finding somewhere decent to stay within the Melbourne city vicinity that doesn't cost the earth like hotel prices, or any other advice regarding moving to Melbourne like family friendly areas etc. Thanks