bringing in migrants to speculate in Aust property sector, wouldn't that encourage more speculation? Most of these people are rich china people who splurge in the property sector to make money, they probably buy several properties but not live in them..that may create an artificial demand that would hike up prices.

err, if u have to spend $4k a month on rental in places like melb...48k a year...wouldn't that be low?

correct me if i am wrong, i've seen $1k a week rental for 2 room apartments in gumtree before.

kinda odd..cause with my job experience...i qualify but no Aussie bloke would want to hire me because they discount my malaysian job experience, even though i worked for numerous MNCs.

is Aust employment getting from bad to worst?

hearing news of toyota closing plant - more car manufacturers will follow suit, will cause 50k loss of jobs.

then qantas also want to retrench 4k staff due to losses.

already ANZ bank retrench 2k workers some time back.

china growth is slowing down, coal prices fall, china's currency devalue 1.3%. Aust economy is very reliant on china growth..so would this affect the booming mining sector badly? Maybe its coming to an end.

I just don't understand, why is Aust bringing in so many migrants? I got friends with IT diploma, some don't even have degree - got bank job experience, even can get PR. Aust don't have a manufacturing base...their exchange rate so high, makes it impractical to have manufacturing plants in the country. therefore, where is the sector that needs to hire migrants the most? The mining sector? but i don't hear news of many of my PR friends ever taking mining jobs because they ldon't want to live in some god forsaken town in Western Aust.

everybody wants to live in the city. so am i right to say, only jobs that are available to migrants are those entry level jobs, Aussies don't want to take up? Just like here in malaysia, we locals don't want to work in the mamak as waiters, so the mamaks hire migrants from india.

so what is proping up the employment scene in Aust? the service sector can't be sustaining the employment?

kinda odd..cause with my job experience...i qualify but no Aussie bloke would want to hire me because they discount my malaysian job experience, even though i worked for numerous MNCs.

Market is very saturated. Singapore not easy to find work. Canada housing market is crazy, may be about to shift, but skilled labour again is hard. Not like Malaysia has that many great opportunities - or there wouldn't be that many people looking elsewhere. Except maybe they will be more accepting.

i am not sure whether want to go or not..i kena scolded by my family for allowing my PR to expire.

But since u tell me, if my pr expire i will never get a chance again...how ah?

i thinking of asking for extension but i dun hv good excuse

also i not willing to leave msia, leave my speciality of accounting work to go to aust for entry level job. so far my frens who migrated there didn't exactly get any worthwhile jobs. Total mismatch, like engineer work as coffee barista and accountant work as librarian.

my father had a near death experience last year, i managed to save his life at 11th hour when i brought him to hospital to take emergency surgery. So its matters like this that cause me to wonder what if i am away, how to take care of my parents? i

Since you're in that sector it may be the way to go. I've got a lot of Singaporean buddies here, ex-WFT, Halli, Schlum and Exxon working here at QGC and they always say that if you're into banking, go SG.

Whatever the case I suggest 485 visa. Use your 1.5 years to find someone that will sponsor you.....or knock up a local....I mean I've had friends do it and they're pretty happy
Not sure about nowadays, so it might be stricter. Either way the government has been on the warpath since 2009 to reduce migration numbers but increase temp visa numbers.
56000 AUD per annum is lower than average graduate salary man....

it hasn't expire, its about to expire...and its placing a lot of pressure on me, about what to do next?

some entry levels also r hard...well depends, my cousin sister is very smart, so she could graduate level jobs but my cousin brother there, he is a bit of a lazy guy, he is engineering graduate but he is not able to EVEN find entry level job in Australia....

so he decided to become a barista.

i know pipu with 5-10 years experience, migrate to Aust, struggling to find job for 6 months.

empire bro...how is the prospect for Geoscience ( Geology & geophysics) in Australia?

your cousin is lucky, i would say

many smart people have to leave. but if you have PR, you have a good chance of finding work. smart doesn't matter if you don't have PR... you might need to be a genius or just be really lucky (unless it is Engineering which seems to not have run out of jobs yet)

smart in study doesn't mean smart in working too. also, smart people will always be choosy and look for top tier companies only and hence they can't get any job

Good Day guys,

can recommend me a health insurance which is 457 visa compliant ?

BUPA ? And is it tax deductible ?

Thanks in advance.

err, if u have to spend $4k a month on rental in places like melb...48k a year...wouldn't that be low?

correct me if i am wrong, i've seen $1k a week rental for 2 room apartments in gumtree before.

your cousin is lucky, i would say

many smart people have to leave. but if you have PR, you have a good chance of finding work. smart doesn't matter if you don't have PR... you might need to be a genius or just be really lucky (unless it is Engineering which seems to not have run out of jobs yet)

not only smart and capable, u need to have a dash of luck too

i am not sure whether want to go or not..i kena scolded by my family for allowing my PR to expire.

But since u tell me, if my pr expire i will never get a chance again...how ah?

i thinking of asking for extension but i dun hv good excuse

also i not willing to leave msia, leave my speciality of accounting work to go to aust for entry level job. so far my frens who migrated there didn't exactly get any worthwhile jobs. Total mismatch, like engineer work as coffee barista and accountant work as librarian.

my father had a near death experience last year, i managed to save his life at 11th hour when i brought him to hospital to take emergency surgery. So its matters like this that cause me to wonder what if i am away, how to take care of my parents? i

now i feeling like my pay has been downgraded because i am from the older generation. The young gen Ys now can command 5k a month with just 2 years experience, in 5 years earn 8k. I am falling far from behind no thanks to me being loyal to my employer, stick to long term, every year increment like crap.

i am thinking of going to Oz, switch career. Dunno see what comes...

accountancy doesn't seem to pay well for me anymore...only for the younger gens.

sure thing there are lots of accountancy jobs here in msia...but retirement up to 60..(pathetic), low exchange, high cost and gen Ys earning more than me...i feeling like changing fields in a foreign land.

i dun think it has anything to do wif employer problem wif me...when i first join..my pay was the same with the older generations who born in 1960.

so it is the same thing happening to me.

HR usually try to skim ur pay one..when you change job, they don't allow more than 20% hike...

they pay the youngsters high while they try to keep the older staff pay from going up, i think this is how companies particularly china ma ones, control their cost.

only few companies in msia appreciate talents..the big ones. but for those co i join, increment every year only rm100 a month.

i wanted to migrate thinking that things would be much different:
1) build career (sick n tired of low pay in msia)
2) earn $$$
3) buy a nice home n start a family
4) escape from political rubbish in msia

but:
1) no career in Aust, they only offer entry level jobs...jobs for accountants only reserve for aussies, even so, not many available because Aussie industry is not big...anyway because of high cost..most finance jobs shipped to shared services n call centres ironically back to msia.
2) $$$ is really good...but some of my frens who migrated took up entry level jobs that earn $50k a year, hardly enough to survive in Aust
3) homes r getting more expensive in Aust..one can only hope for a two room studio
4) Aussies dun exactly like asians. back 8 years when i studied there...they were nice..there was a time an aussie would just come by you as u r waiting at a bus/tram stop, just to have a chat with u about the weather, politics n family. Now...only Aussie neo nazi kids want to have a chat with u, so they can mug u on the spot.