There's no place is hard to get a job. just make sure you give out all your resume to every shop. Even they never put the BOARD stating they wan people but you can ask the manager in the store wether they need people or not.

AUD VS MYR on the rise

I know. If this rises > 3.5, it's going to be crazy now that USD is just around that figure.

This post has been edited by chris_c28: Jul 4 2007, 11:58 AM

wont be tat high/...shud be ard 3.10...

they (some oz playmaker) always hike the rate up early and middle of the year coz they know lots of students n tourist going there. u wait n c after july n august, the rate will go down a bit. it's been like this for the past 3 years

really?
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?...=MYR&amt=1&t=2y
based on this ....it doesnt really like wat u said, besides, the exchange rate is like 05 yr now..if it keep going up ..bad for us student..

Are you saying that the Australian dollar rises because of students and tourists and not because of a booming economy and high commodity prices?

Do you have any articles to back this up? I'm sure the Reserve Bank would be very interested to know about it.

mmm smart RBR
booming econ- asx running above 6000 points..
high commodity- new land mines

not just tat..the import going up, the export also go up and interest rate on HOLD !


This post has been edited by KVReninem: Jul 4 2007, 05:23 PM

Wow. I thought this thread had died.

The AUD just breached the 2.95 mark, and at the rate this is going, we're going to see 3.0 by the end of this year. The NZD isn't any much better, hovering close to 2.7 to the AUD. On the bright side, it has been good for NZ tourists, who have never seen the AUD and the NZD (1.09) so close to each other.

Interest rates are damn high, and everything is going up, in Brisbane at least. Petrol is still stubbornly $1.20/litre. Bus fares gone up. Vege prices in the supermarkets are also a bit high. Rent is also rising. The exchage rate isn't helping either.

And aobk84, ignoring your (lack of) English, can you prove any data to back yourself up? Usually it is the middle of the year, the AUD and the NZD drops. This year is an unusal outlier (I hope).

This post has been edited by haya: Jul 5 2007, 10:43 AM

so haya, you feel the pinch edi?

Hi guys~ My name is Veronica. I'm a uni graduate from Murdoch University, Western Australia. The reason I posted here is to offer my advice to any students who plan to study in Australia in the future, or even students currently studying there.

After I completed my SPM in Malaysia, my whole family migrated to Perth, Australia. I went on to study 1 year of secondary education at one of their government high school. After that I was accepted into Murdoch University for Multimedia Design.

However, I changed my major to Business Information Systems after 1 year of Multimedia study. Thank goodness I did not have to spend any extra time to complete this course. Guess what, I even took 1 year off uni study to take up short courses e.g. Swimming Instructor Course, and found a job, & a bf

...and here I am now! Graduated at the end of last year & now moved back to Malaysia to help out in the bf's family business, yup he's local n back to here too!

I've had many great experiences studying in Australia. What I've talked about was only the overview. I surely recommend every secondary school graduate from Malaysia to further your studies in Australia! There're thousands of reasons y studying there is much better~

Feel free to msg me if u got any questions or comments about studying there n i'll surely share my experience with u!

Ops sorry it's my own experience after and still studying there for 4 years.. coz when i get back here to change currency it's always higher than other time of the year.

maybe i should do some research since i graduated vit bachelor of econs n now doing postgrad for accounting,sorryla i didnt take postgrad for econs if not this will be my thesis

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Added on July 5, 2007, 3:50 pmSo your main point is that the rate is similar to 2005 right? Sure that is what I'm just trying to say the rate rises during this time of the year and early of the year.

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Added on July 5, 2007, 3:54 pmFirst, Australian economy runs under a Managed Floating Exchange Rate. So even if their economy is affected by student,tourists or commodity prices.. there is still an invinsible hand controlling the economy/exchange rate. They will try to do it to their own best interest just like what Malaysia is doing now. Go read Australia n Malaysia exchange rate policy first

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Added on July 5, 2007, 4:06 pmSo now you are saying the exchange rate will be 3 end of this year? (I assume you have a very good data to back yourself up?)

About NZ tourists benefiting from the rise in their rate, is that the best you can conclude from such increase? Do you know what their main exports and imports are? It is agriculture and with such rise, their exports will be hurt. Plain simple Economics. I doubt their government is concern about NZ tourist benefiting from such rise in rate.

Do you know the main thing interest rate rise is to curb the increases in prices/spending. It is not because Interest Rate is high that causes everything to goes up.

For a conclusion, I gotta admit my English is not perfect/excellent. I wonder how good is yours. Now back to you asking me about the prove I have to back myself up. That was just my own experience after studying and converting money for 4 years. I basically convert every month of the year so that is what I see the trend as. The reason i'm not sure.

You say it's an unusual outlier, well maybe.. that's your own opinion right? Well, so it's mine!





This post has been edited by aobk84: Jul 5 2007, 04:06 PM

We do have a study in aus thread around here.My question is:do we really need another one?

Anyway,im planning to go there next year.Still waiting for reply from uni.Some uni really take very long to send me their reply.

merge pls ~

okay mr economic !
wat will you say about the australia dollar by yr end ?going up?

there is anthr thread..pls share ur exp at the thread..close the thread plzzz..

both Studying in Australia threads merged

HIHI....Do u know about Curtin University of Technology at Perth??What u think about this UNI??.I got offered to study pharmacy at there.But i am stii considering whether to study at Aus or study at local.I heard from many saying that study at Aus have lot of lot of lot of great experience.Can share some with me?

So you're saying you based what you say on your personal observations for 4 years? If anything, they'd devalue the currency so tourists can buy more things when they come over wouldn't they? Here's something you can read to learn a bit more about why a currency rates and why they rise:- http://hsc.csu.edu.au/economics/place/rate...eRatesmeas.html

And the high Australian dollar has nothing to do with Malaysia. The Australian dollar has risen against every currency, once again, thanks to the mining boom. The Malaysian currency has risen against the USD too but not fast enough.

I graduated from Curtin University of Tech, but with a Bach. degree in Engineering majoring in Electronics and Communications. First of all, the campus is superb. Very very big with a lot of greenery and the facilities are great. As for food, plenty of places to eat on-campus and the city is about a 20 minutes ride by bus. The engineering lecturers there are quite helpful, but they really prefer the students to be independent. And don't worry about the students there. 75% of my class last time consisted of Malaysian, Singaporean, and Indonesian chinese. Makes you feel quite at home. You don't even have to worry about getting a car there (although it's cheap) because the public transportation there is super efficient and they have concession rates for students (pay only half price).

I had a lot of friends there doing their pharmaceutical course in Curtin. If you plan to pursue a pharmaceutial course at Curtin, I only have 1 advice for you. You have to study extremely hard. It is quite a tough course. A few of my friends dropped out during 2nd year coz they could not take the pressure. We always complained amongst ourselves about the difficulty level of the syllabus for the pharmaceutial course and engineering course. However, it was all worth while once you finish your course because you know that the quality of education that you got. Put your 100% effort during the semester and enjoy 100% during the breaks.

The commerce courses there are really relaxing though.

This post has been edited by phat_newbie: Jul 6 2007, 08:38 AM