Sure bro. Will highlight you on this

yeah, when i step down from the plane, i realised so many malaysians living there.
I think it's the nearest city so far by travelling 5 hours only. What caught my eyes is that there's so many malaysian restaurant and groceries shop. I think i received some feedback saying that you can't get malaysian food there. Well, surprisingly i even found bak kut teh, indian food, nasi lemak...you just name it.
Got many indians also. Saw a big huge temple at canning vale...they treat all races and religion equal.

Very! I ordered CharSiew rice cost me AUD10! Wantan mee at AUD8. Dollar to dollar, it's the same as KL. If you convert, then it kills!
Same goes to UK whereby eating a BigMac cost me 6pound which is RM30. No way you can convert by then.
Ozzie expenditure power is strong. Well, i don't expect eating out everyday. Need to import some cook book...haha

Yeah, previously bought whole box of apples like 30 pcs cost me AUD5. Celery AUD1, potatos AUD1 whole bag.
Again, dollar to dollar, i think it's pretty cheap compared to Malaysia. No way you could find those food in this cheap.
I found that dairy products in Aust is actually the same price in Malaysia after conversion. Damn! Our inflation is high here whereby our salary is damn low. Weak expenditure power.

Yeah, i saw that too...hmm, seems Ozzie living don't really come cheap either. My friend who just migrated to Canada, living cost is lower than Oz.

haha, yeah. Believe it or not, now i have few friends wanna migrate too.
Mostly heading Ozzie. The rest heading canada and US. I dunno izzit becoz the current election cause the exodus??

Please bear in mind you'll be competing with international candidates who have PR or working experience. Even people who have both can't even get a job with current job market. Yesterday, i just talked to my friend that his company & others in the industry in Perth is facing financial difficulties in gettingn projects. Expecting for some retrenchment!

Got updates from the news stated RM2.96 against AUD1. Seems ringgit is stronger by now after election and the declaration of RBA to reduce interest.
The impact is that housing will go up, people buying expensive house, increase higher foreign investment in properties.
I think as you said, Ozzie rely heavily on mining & O&G. other industry perform not as good as expected.

You've to inform DIAC and include your child's name in your family record complete with passport and medical report.

I do heard that some have been accepted the disabled child but some not. My uncle who has a disabled child actually being accepted but with condition is that all the medical cost shall be beared by themselves instead medicare. Require to sign a health undertaking. They give up as high tax paid does not give any support to the child. No point of staying there.
However, this very much depends on your child's health and disability condition:-

Dependent
The emotional family ties that may exist between children and parents are not regarded as an indicator of
dependency.
To be considered dependent, the child must be in one of the following situations:
• be wholly or substantially reliant on the sponsoring parent for financial support to meet their basic
needs of food, shelter and clothing and be able to show that they have relied on this support for a
substantial period (usually 12 months); or
• be wholly or substantially reliant on the sponsoring parent for financial support because of a disability
that prevents them working to support themself. The child will still need to meet Australia’s health
requirements before being granted a visa (see page 24).
‘Disability’ means that the child has total or partial loss of his or her bodily or mental functions. Acceptable
medical evidence must be provided to show that the child has such a disability and they are unable to
financially support themself because of it.
‘Wholly or substantially’ means totally or to a great degree. The child must show that their reliance on
the sponsoring parent for financial support is greater than their reliance for financial support on any other
person or source.

Depicted from this websites: http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/booklets/1128.pdf

Do seek advice from migration lawyer / agent for further as we are not the party to advice any further on this.

This post has been edited by Nemesis1980: Jun 20 2013, 02:34 PM

I'm sorry, they actually applying themselves instead going thru agents. My cousin is a downsyndrome too.
My uncle working in oil & gas and he's in China now. That's why he earns pretty high salary and got fed up with the Oz government on the medical cap to his son. If he pay high tax and got none medical benefit to his son then it's no point for him to migrate.

Somehow migration might not be the best option. Malaysia do somehow still the best to stay put.

YEah, finally they got pissed off with Julia with all stupid tax. Kevin Rudd will be much better off having good relation with China. I think the election the soonest is August not later by end September. Hopefully this would boost the project there to open more work vacancy soon.

1) Get the PR 1st
2) Buy ticket, land and look for job
3) The chances of getting job offshore is minimal but not to say impossible. Based on luck and demand. You're competing with Indian IT people who exodus whole community from India to Oz.
4) Save as much money as you can for 'burning'. Might saying 3-6 months no job.

However, my advise is No.1 is priority. No PR,no job . Good luck

I'm counting down now for job hunting end of the month flying to Oz.
I don't know how i feel now coz i'm going alone while my wife and children will still be in KL not until i stable myself with job there.
It's pretty sad and angry sometimes that i couldn't bring them together due to insufficient funds. I know this is temporary but it'll like few months going there which i really miss them a lot.
Hate to say that i've to push it hard, real hard on job hunting though. We ain't rich man or datuk family, we're just a normal malaysian family like everyone else.
We're glad that we getting PR but this separation process i hope no one is going through.

I suggest you have to read thru DIAC website. Always remember, this is a big move and should prepare quite a huge amount of money. However, following are the major steps you may need to look into it.
1) Check eligibility
2) Once ok, submit in you EOI, pay $$
3) get IELTS 7 in 4 modules, pay $$
4）get your cert stamp true copy from notary public, pay $$
5) get birth cert translated, pay $$
6) medical 3 of you
7) police check 2 of you
8) the final 1, bring money during your stay to find jobs, no PR no job

Once u get PR, following steps need to do:-
1) get medicare card registered
2) get tax file number
3) get a bank account
4) get a place to rent
5) get a car

Suggestion:
1) come alone for job hunting
2) once stable, bring family over
3) make sure get OZzie company

majority asian company here is blood suckling company. Even in Oz, there's plenty of ganasai company exist especially Asian company. Chinese bully own chinese. So, be sure about this

I even received emails from fresh graduate who willing to work for free..........yes it's free.

To be honest, accountant is a surplus in Oz. I suggest you have to take whatever job 1st but has to be profession related. My wife is a chartered accountant as well but we migrate here thru my profession which i am a quantity surveyor.
Why must everyone moving to melbourne? It's far expensive than other city besides Sydney. Perth consider 1 of the expensive but still livable so far coz nearer to MAS. Maybe could try Brisbane, darwin, adelaide...etc.
There's some company taking advantage on you guys by saying no local experience and will cut your pay based on lowest wages. To be frank, i didn't find it difficult to adapt the local experience as long the company willing to give u the chance to take it into challenge. Thank God this is my 2nd company i joined. It's Ozzie company and more humane on staff rights. Of course don't abuse it coz boss put trust on us. My 1st is asian company is ganasai. Really can't work properly inside, worst than MAS company i worked back there.
For your case, might consider applying smaller company 1st but don't expect high pay.

This thread is almost dead........

Sorry, i already long migrated....