Best Website for Australian Travel Advice

Best Website for Australian Travel Advice While of course Phillip Silver and Associates is your one stop shop for the best website for Australian travel advice, there are also many other websites that will assist you with advice for when traveling to Australia. Please be aware that this advice should be always taken along with…

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Romance Scams

Romance Scams Many looking for love are looking online and are seeking out love in alternative ways. Many of the people being scammed are the older generation in Australia as they may be more vulnerable and not as knowledgeable in understanding when they are being scammed. The fact is, is that more and more older…

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Proposal to let migrants buy their way into Australia

Proposal to let migrants buy their way into Australia A proposal has been drawn that may be implemented to let migrants buy their way into Australia has been slammed as a backwards step that will not address any skills shortages or allow for the right skill set to be added to our work force. Federal…

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Temporary Visa

Temporary Visa Australian visas: Indians, Chinese signing up on a temporary visa. More temporary Aussies are coming from Asia than any other country according to latest statistics. According to the latest immigration data, there are more than 300,000 Indian and Chinese citizens are in Australia on temporary visas. Most of the arrivals are visitors, students…

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Visas for entrepreneurs

Visas for entrepreneurs Labor plans to lure ‘smartest minds on the planet’ to Australia An entrepreneurial visa program may turbo-charge the nation’s technology start-up scene, in line with the Federal Opposition. If elected, Labor is promising to lure thousands of international students to remain in Australia for one more year once they graduate from university,…

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Visa Hopes Broken

Visa Hopes Broken What if you were nearly at the finishing line and your visa type was abolished? There are many who have had their Visa hopes broken when the government abolished a selection of visas telling future residents their applications never existed. There are thousands apon thousands of families left stricken by the choice.…

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Irish Failing English Language Test

Irish Failing English Language Test Just because you have a trade, does not mean that you can pass the IELTS English test. If we are to be honest, most of the world use spell check like it’s going out of fashion. So what if there was no spell check and your citizenship was on the…

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Selfie Stick Obsession

Selfie Stick Obsession There’s no denying that selfies have become a new age sensation, with that in mind, Tourism Australia have come up with a new incentive to lure the Japanese with their selfie stick obsession. Tourism Australia has created the worlds longest selfie stick with it’s new promotion GIGA selfie aimed at the Japanese…

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Australia’s Food and Wine

Australia’s Food and Wine While many travelers of course visit Australia for it’s Tourist Destination hot spots, many as much as 1 in 5 tourist dollars, are being spent on Australia’s Food and Wine. With that being said, the industry is eager to capitalise on this new spending trend. It is said that an extra…

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Outrage as Australian Border Protection Initiative Scrapped

 Outrage as Australian Border Protection Initiative Scrapped   Outrage as Australian Border Protection Initiative Scrapped, what an uproar it casued. It’s quite safe to say that no one was on the side of border protection in Melbourne earlier this month. Australian Border Force (ABF) were forced to scrap an operation at targeting visa fraud, however…

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