Australias economy is a tower of strength after two respected international reports confirmed it continued to lead the developed world.
The first from the International Monetary Fund added its weight to mounting evidence that Australia was powering …

Your reasons for choosing to emigrate to Australia will be varied. For us, as adults we saw the local parks and playing fields we used to play on as kids, turned into graffiti and syringe …

Deadly 60 – Australia is being broadcast on BBC one tomorrow at 17:15 for anyone that’s interested.
Within the program, lucky wildlife expert Steve Backshall and his crew head for the Australian continent as he continues …

I read a very interesting letter printed in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning
Within the letter a chap by the name of Michael Jones writes about the strong link between overseas students studying in Australia …

What with all the gloom and doom associated with the current economic crisis. The further cuts in the Australian Skilled Migration intake and all that other cheery news recently coming out of Australia, I thought …

Can you hear that……? Yup that’s the silence associated with the Australian Immigration Authority doing…..stuff!
It seems very quiet at the moment. My checks of all the usual sources of immigration news seems to be bringing …

Hi Guys. Following my last post I thought I’d better write a very brief update to let you know that I’ve still got a job.
We offer a subscription service here at getting down under (see …

So I’m sat on the train on my way to work this morning and it’s not going to be a typical day.
Sure, the suns still shining, the sky is still blue but today I’ll find …

An Article that I read on the UK website of the Independent Newspaper made me laugh today.
It talks about the Girona tourist board’s latest attempt to spice up its Mediterranean appeal using an image taken …

I was having a little bit of banter with an Australian work colleague of mine the other day.
Having found another Redback spider in the back garden a couple of weeks ago I’ve found myself becoming …

I thought I would save the last entry in the recent series of Blog entries following our Western Australia Road trip to Shell Beach.
Shell beach, just a few Kilometres south of Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort …

Once we had decided to embark on our Road trip around western Australia, we had two options.
Option one: head down south towards the wine regions of Margaret River where we would spend the week touring …

Since arriving down under I’ve already written about the wonders of the bird life here in Western Australia.
Coming from Northern England, the most exotic birds we saw were the pigeons we’d often see waddling around. …

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about the recent hot weather we were experiencing here in Perth.
We were hitting temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius and I have to say …

As I mentioned yesterday, we travelled quite some distance during our road trip, 4449 kilometres to be exact and I have to say, I have never been so awe struck by the vastness of the …

It’s been a while since we arrived in Australia and even though we have been living down under for over two years now we have still to undertake any kind of extensive travelling.
We have always …