Choosing A School In Australia
Australia has excellent state and independent schools to choose from. School education in Australia includes preschool, preparatory (or kindergarten), primary school, secondary school (or high school) and senior secondary school (or college). School education in Australia lasts for 13 years, and is compulsory between the ages of six and sixteen (Year 1 to Year 9...
Taking Your Pet To Australia
If you decide to take your pet with you to Australia you will need to comply with the detailed regulations and procedures and some pets cannot be taken to Australia. Cats and dogs can be imported to Australia under strict conditions designed to manage biosecurity risks. For the import conditions applicable to your cat or...
Taking Motor Vehicles To Australia
Taking vehicles to Australia is possible but you should be clear on what is involved and whether it is worthwhile. If you plan to take your vehicle to Australia you will need to be realistic about what is involved and the costs of doing so. The vehicle will need to comply with Australian design and...
Visa Requirements To Enter Australia
You need to have a visa to enter Australia. The exact visa requirements will vary according to the length and purpose of your intended stay. The Australian Department of Home Affairs has a useful Visa Finder which allows you to work out which visa will meet your situation. The main categories of visa are as...
Joining Your Family In Australia
If you have relatives living in Australia there are various visas to allow you to apply to join them, but they are not always easy to obtain. Spouse and fiancée visa If you are married to or in a committed relationship with an Australian citizen or permanent resident you may be able to get a...
Top 10 Facts About Living In Australia
If you are thinking about moving to Australia here are our 10 top pieces of information for expats: Australia is the most popular destination in the world for UK expats with over 1 million Brits living there. There are also at least 100,000 Americans living in Australia. With 28% of Australian residents born overseas there...
Wood nets 5-year LNG Ichthys contract to support INPEX in Australia
Wood wins strategic five-year engineering services contract supporting INPEX in Australia Wood has been awarded the brownfield engineering services contract for the INPEX-operated Ichthys offshore facilities, located 220 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia and onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facilities in Darwin, Northern Territory. Effective immediately, the contract is for five years...
Pensions Apartheid Is Keeping Expats Trapped In The Past
Patrick Hosking, the Financial Editor of The Times, sets out the pensions anomaly faced by British expats due to the UK’s two-tier approach to indexation of pensions. Depending on where you retire to your pension may be ‘frozen’ and not have the benefit of the ‘triple lock’. This sponsored article is published in full here: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pensions-apartheid-is-keeping-expats-trapped-in-the-past...
John Holland wins 270km pipeline contract Australia
John Holland has been awarded the contract by WaterNSW to design, build, operate and maintain a new 270km water supply pipeline from the River Murray in Wentworth to Broken Hill. They will work with MPC Group to construct the new pipeline, including pumping facilities, water storage and power supply, and then partner with TRILITY for...
EnerMech awarded Shell Prelude Australia FLNG contract
Global engineering and maintenance services provider, EnerMech, has been awarded a five-year contract for hose and hose fittings supply and services for Shell’s Prelude FLNG Facility in Western Australia. The Prelude FLNG contract will be administered from EnerMech’s Henderson base in Perth while engineering and service support will be provided from regional facilities across Australia,...
Where In The World Is Best For Expats?
Escaping the grey weather seems to be a major priority for those emigrating from the UK as sunny Spain tops the list of favorite British expat destinations. With some areas basking in as many as 300 sunny days a year, almost one in ten expats from the UK heads for Spain. Nearly seven in ten...
Amec Foster Wheeler JV enters Australian petrochemicals market
Clough AMEC has won a landmark contract to provide maintenance services to ammonia facilities in Western Australia that supply international and domestic fertiliser markets and explosives used in the mining industry. The five-year deal, with an option to extend to 2027, is Clough AMEC’s first entry into Australia’s petrochemicals sector. The JV will provide maintenance...