Its true. DONT COME! I am currently staying in Australia since my family migrated here. But still its pretty hard for an asian to get a job here. Even u r alot smarter than them they still will prefer their own people anyway. That's y i plan to go back malaysia to work nxt yr. Just an opinion.

Oz is still relatively a small economy of 25m people if u take out the mining boom and property (fueled by foreigners). Personal income tax is close to 50% top scale and on global basis. So your income in MY is taxable even if u do not send to Au. Mining very dependent on China so u can wait and see how what happened next year. I am told that getting a job for a new grad(with PR) range from 6 mth for accounting grad to more  than 1 year for engineers.
Unless u hv a confirmed job, u are better off going to Singapore.

A lot of grad doing other job eg McD, Big W while applying for job ( enuf to pay for food but papa and mama using retirement mony  to pay for rent.)

And migrating to Au for your child's education . . . . think again.
   

1) Like? It really depends on individual, if you can succeed in Australia, you can be successful in Malaysia too. I do not agree with this.
2) What do you expect the government to treat you? They tax you more in Australia hence more benefits. Everything still comes from the tax payer money anyway.
3) It really depends. Most of the cases, yes, but there are many roles that require 24/7 standby and workload that needs to overflow to weekend. Both Malaysia and Australia have roles that only need you to be present and do very little stuff and relax. Point is, if you are in a role that is really stressful in Malaysia and you move to Australia to look for a job that is almost identical, it might be easier, but you shouldn't expect big changes.
4) Higher is a wrong word. The education and environment are not ideal as most of you would think. Think of US and UK, and you shouldn't expect Australia to be much better then those two countries. Which is why I said in my previous post, private education is a necessity for most parents nowadays. And mind you, even for primary education, it starts at 17k per annum ++ of fees.
5) Getting a place to stay will cost you the most here. If you don't have one, you will still struggle. My opinion is, you should never ever migrate to Australia because of money. If you are planning for the same lifestyle you had back in Malaysia and you didn't save in Malaysia, you wouldn't save here in Autsralia too.
6) You got a really wrong perception on this. This is not just an Australian problem, but a democracy problem. Having short term government that changes every other term are the culprit of THINGS NEVER GET DONE. A short and simple example in Sydney. Talks had been going since 20 years ago about having a second airport, about having train services to north west region, building/expanding freeways in hills district and western suburbs. Millions have been spent on consultation to make up plans to have it scrapped when a new government comes into power. In the end, its the people that struggles with wasted tax money, traffic congestion and long traveling time. Just have a look at the wiki below on one of the example mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_railway_line,_Sydney