Living as a South African Emigrant in Perth By Irene de Bruyn Moving from South Africa to Perth, Irene constantly finds herself comparing the differences and similarities of both cultures as she settles in to her new life. This is her story… Comparing Cultures I suspect it irritates the inside out of Australians, but as an emigrant, […]
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The Story Of A Trailing Spouse By Ausra Larbey Packing up their children and their home, Ausra followed her husband from Australia to Norway and became a trailing spouse in the process. This is her story… I managed to become ‘a trailing spouse’ without realising it. Out of perpetual free spirited independent traveller whose decision
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Building A New Life In A New City By Sue Ellson Eleven years ago, Sue left her hometown of Adelaide and a large extended family to build a life of her own in Melbourne. This is her story… This month, it will be 11 years since I left my ‘home town’ of Adelaide. At what now
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Settling In To The Australian Lifestyle By Stephen Kuhn Posted on the Americans Down Under Yahoo Group on 25 November 2004 and reprinted here with permission – the first part is the original post by Sue Ellson and the second part is a response by Stephen… You may be interested to know that in our recent
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My Life Of Luggage As A Trailing Spouse By Cheryl Ng Collett With a husband in the consulting business, Cheryl has packed up their belongings and moved around more times than she can count. This is her story… The phone rings and a voice on the other end tells my husband to get on the
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A Chinese Migrant Finding Work In Australia In November 2004, I was called on to provide some recruitment services for a friend and was very fortunate to interview Ms Tracy Nee. Unfortunately Tracy was not selected for the position, but since then, she has kept in touch, keeping me updated on her progress and even
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Returning to Outback Australia from the Middle East 03/11/2004 This story is very personal. Of course, as you will see at the end, I have asked the author for their permission to publish it on the website. It gives you a small taste of the types of queries we receive at Newcomers Network and shows
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I feel it is important to publish this dialogue in a ‘website’ format so if you have not used online forums you can consider using them….they can be very supportive environments. Unfortunately, there seems to be a very low take up rate here in Australia. I have asked the group for permission to reproduce this
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Returning Home to Australia with my Son 01/03/2004 by Paolo Black We heard Paolo Black’s story read out on ABC Radio National on Monday 1 March 2004. His story captured our attention, so here it is for your enjoyment – obtained and published with Paolo’s permission. In 1980, when he was appearing nightly on the
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An American Woman Living in Australia 20/10/2004 by Maureen Whitaker This post has been reprinted with the permission of the author. It was posted on a very active Yahoo Group that we post on – Americans Down Under http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmericansDownUnder/ ——————————————————————– Thanks for everyone who replied to my message. It is great to hear first hand what
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