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  1. Jon the Hat
    Voted best City to visit by readers of a travel mag, many of whom live in Sydney or Melbourne, and who want to get away from the big city they live in when they travel. Makes sense.
  2. Jon the Hat
    Increasing interest rates is not going to help inflation, it is the reason inflation is staying so high. The sooner the banks forget their 1970s models and realise this the sooner we can get back to normal levels of inflation and growth. They will cause recession in the UK and slowdown in Australia before that though I am sure.
  3. Jon the Hat
    One of my team built up a substantial sick/carers leave balance over 16 years, which has meant he could be a great support to his wife who has been having cancer treatment for the past year. In that context, wasting it for a day off here and there seems pretty silly.
  4. Jon the Hat
    I second that Iron Lady made it all very easy. Definitely bring it if you love it - vehicles are expensive over here!
  5. Jon the Hat
    If they don't grant PR, it is I think worth asking for it, as there has been the occasional case where they appear to have forgotten.
  6. Jon the Hat
    Just move to the lovely City of Melville, which has no number restrictions.
  7. Jon the Hat
    Non driving in FNQ would be interesting I suspect!
  8. Jon the Hat
    Tax rates in the UK have not been continually reduced since the 80s. Admittedly the stupid high tax rates of the 70s are fortunately no more, but there was the introduction of the higher rate, the removal of the tax free allowance over 100k and the never ending creep of threshold reductions.
  9. Jon the Hat
    I will also benefit, but I am also smart enough to recognize that in addition to lots of hard work over many years, I also benefitted from being born white, in an prosperous part of a developed western country with high education standards, went to a school that encouraged us to believe we could go to university, to parents who believe in hard work and making the most of your opportunities. I also had a great group of friends at school who helped me stay on the right side of doing too many stupid things, and have been fortunate in being in the right place at the right time career wise. Lots of people don't get these starts in life, and it is no bad thing to pay a bit more tax to help boost them up.
  10. Jon the Hat
    They don't need to scrap it, but it would be better to lower the threshold of the higher rate to ensure the lower paid do better without handing $10,000 tax cut to those earning over $200k.
  11. Jon the Hat
    Have the baddies gone?
  12. Jon the Hat
    Yes I think so.
  13. Jon the Hat
    Taxing the illegal activities would make one complicit no? Hard to justify. Also illegally earned money is often laundered, which does tend to attract tax.
  14. Jon the Hat
    If one of the couple is earning in that range and the point is to encourage their partner to work it makes sense. It also likely pays for itself in tax revenues from the worker and the childcare employees.
  15. Jon the Hat
    It is quicker in a lot of cases to commute from the home counties then across London though. At least it was until the Elizabeth line, might be better now. Same in Sydney I guess, all road/trains/trams lead to the CBD.
  16. Jon the Hat
    Hot? It always sodding rains when I visit Sydney!
  17. Jon the Hat
    Yes that does take some getting used to, especially if you have a child who will only eat a tub of fruit if it has strawberries in it...
  18. Jon the Hat
    There is a document category showing a medical check booking (I forget what it is called). If you really cannot make it happen in 28 days (which I would recommend even if you have to do it at lunch or something) then make a booking for the medical when you can attend, upload that and attach a note explaining your situation. Perhaps an email from work saying you are not permitted time off in your first month.
  19. Jon the Hat
    There are hotels you can book for a couple of hours, much nicer than the lounge.
  20. Jon the Hat
    I would say it is worth being ambitious when you arrive, as there is a shortage of talent at the moment. I was prepared to take a step backwards, but in the end with a little patience I got a role at a higher level in a new industry which ticked all the boxes for my next career step.
  21. Jon the Hat
    Congratulations! PSS were fine for us, and the company they used this end, the Key Moving Solutions were helpful with storage etc and splitting the delivery. It is usually recommended to use letton Percival for insurance.
  22. Jon the Hat
    On this we can absolutely agree, and once it has been bought they should be taxed so much for leaving it empty they are all but obliged to rent it out.
  23. Jon the Hat
    It's a fair point, but then again how much time have you spent in the UK recently?
  24. Jon the Hat
    If you can, try to imagine being stuck in the UK forever, your visa plans gone. How does that feel? If it feels shit, then move. you can always move back, but the chance to come to Aus might never come again.
  25. Jon the Hat
    Absolutely container costs are back to normal levels, so anyone with a quote from a couple of months ago should be asking for a requote.
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