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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 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…
Read MoreProposal 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…
Read MoreTemporary 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…
Read MoreVisas 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,…
Read MoreVisa 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.…
Read MoreIrish 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…
Read MoreSelfie 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…
Read MoreAustralia’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…
Read MoreOutrage 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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