I might look into it. I've always dreamed of living in Victoria, Melbourne. It just looks so relaxing. I wouldn't mind the constant noise of crickets first thing in the morning. It just attracts me way much. I know it may not be all sun and fun, because life has up's and down's, but I'm only human. Might aswell take my dream and run with it :)

Melbourne has a diverse culture to it, and can be as relaxing or fast paced as you choose it to be, depending on where you live and what kind of lifestyle you want. There are many of your countrymen living and working in Melbourne RG, one of whom happen to be a very good friend of mine and has just received a building permit to build a holiday home on the Mornington Peninsula...so her & her husband who is also from England are doing very well.

I have only been through Melbourne when I was catching planes, it's way to busy for me, heaps of people.
We move to Tasmania in December, we are heading to America for a few months and then going to Tassie on the way back, it will be a huge change as their summers are not as hot as our winters, if you ever head over, you are welcome to come down and drop in.

That is our main problem, it's not that we can't do the work, there just are not enough of us.
The state I livein is two and a half times the size of Texas and we only have just over 200 thousand people in the whole state.

The majority of our people live in the 5 main cities,

I know, I really had no idea how many people can actually live in one place until I headed over to America, it seemed awful hard to be free when so many people seemed to struggle just to make ends meet.
I had pictured a country pretty much the same as ours, in some ways it is, but because of the population it makes life a lot harder if you are not well off.
It seemed like people where working soooo many hours just to make ends meet.

I didn't finish school, have no certificates yet can walk into a good job easily here.
But if I moved to America, I wouldnt be employable.

Hungary has the same land area as Australia, and there are fewer than 10 million people. Everybody is unemployed. And there are Chinese immigrants who do all the work for us Hungarians. We while our time with politics, which is of the most horrible kind in the world, short of killing each other in hand-to-hand combat at the polling stations.

Hungary's only industry is agriculture and since it's heavily subsidized, only about 100,000 people are needed to be employed and they do the jobs comfortably. That's one person out of every 100 who needs to work to keep the country going. The rest, who don't have to work but do, are crazy.

Hungary is about 2000 miles further north than any other country where rice can be cultivated and it grows. It's because the soil that we have is thiiiiis good soil, dammit. The soil is the best all around, nothing beats Hungarian soil.

Hungary's leading export products are soccer players and welfare recipients. We also subsidize as a humanitarian effort, by the entire nation, the Oxygen content of the non-specific secular UN World Atmosphere. Oxygen just ooooooozes out of Hungary, through the borders, without restriction of any kind. We supply an approximately appropriate amount of the entire world supply of fresh, organically produced Oxygen; commensurate with our flora and their chlorofill content vis a vis sunlight hours per year. I know I am getting technical, but this is the pride and joy of all Hungarians, which makes us walk tall and proud amongst all other creatures of the world.

Oxygen is therefore Hungary's national bird and flower at the same time. The national animal is the drunk soccer club fan, and the national plant is the lawyer. It's a potted plant.

(www.australia-mining.com) is scam 100% please read this :

http://www.justanswer.com/fraud-examiner/64v5e-mining-australia-scam-send-money.html


ben.jones :
Hello and thank you for your question, which I will gladly help with. Please explain your situation in a bit more detail

Customer :
Sure thin there is a website on line called "mining Australia" they can give you in sight for mining jobs in Australia, its looks very Australian however the company is Mining Australia is a trading name of the Nevada-registered company Haldeman LLC at 10685-B Hazelhurst Dr. #6369 Houston, TX 77043 United States.

Customer :
You send $159- and they say they are not a recutment agency but will give you advice on how to get a job in the mining industry

Customer :
Have you heard of this as a scam or ????

ben.jones :
ok let me make a few enquiries and I will respond shortly

Customer :
cheers XXXXX XXX

ben.jones :
do you have the site address please?

Customer :
www.australia-mining.com

ben.jones :
You are correct in your research so far. This domain name is XXXXXXXXXX XX the company you mentioned, which is located in the US. This is already a big red flag.



The Australian mining scam is a common scam these days and many people have fallen victims to it. If you search the internet you will find plenty of stories on the internet about these types of scam.



It is not usual for recruitment companies to ask for payment in advance and they will usually get their commission from the recruiting company. So whenever you are asked to pay in advance for someone to find you a job, then you know it is likely a scam and I suggest you do not get involved with them.



Customer :
ok thank you. so these people can have australian bank accounts? and representatives in australia who contact you and speak directly to you as well?

ben.jones :
This has been reported in the past. It is not uncommon for thek to have an 'associate' in the country but for the legal entity to be in a different country to ensure any legal action is difficult. So proceed with caution

Customer :
ok thank you for your help greatlly appreciated

He is right. In all walks of life, any originality, any good idea, and any enthusiastic ability and willingness to survive and to help others is naturally and with seemingly little effort always killed by legalities.

I have in my possession undeniable evidence that proves that when the South East Asia tsunami relief efforts were employed, they were facilitated by a special decree by the UN, the President, and the pope, that no lawyer was allowed to apporach the perimeter of any humanitarian effort or volunteer agency closer than 1,000 feet (or about 298.87 metres.) There were a batallion of policemen equipped with tear gas and measuring tapes to hold the throngs of lawyers away.

If you want to slow down, burden down, stifle, and eventually suffocate to death any good idea, bring in some lawyers.

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Some examples of brilliant achievements, which escaped the threat, doom, and sure death by any kinds of facilitation by lawyers:

- the Golden Horde of Ghenghis Kohen, which ran down and dominated 80% of the the landmass of the then known world, inside of like three years.

- Invention of the wheel and invention of the fire.

- The first Lunar landing.

- Beethoven's Nineth.

- Picasso's "La Guernica".

- "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah", by The Beatles -- a landmark of unbridled beauty in artistic expressions by the young of our species, in which is expressed by the musicians and communicated to the listener, the first-time experience of a, for the person brand new, emotional force, of magnitudes that surprize him and fill him with joy over both of love and of rapturous loss of feelings of guilt, and the emotional content and message of which song will impact and dominate the listener's emotions and moral self-guidance for the rest of his life.

- Dante's "Inferno".

- The formation of basic amino acids in the primeordeal soup some four billion years ago.

- the death of Dynosaurs by the meteorite impacts some one hundred million years ago.

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All these never would have happened should lawyers have been involved in the makings of them.

There are a few sites that have jumped on board the mining boom industry and charge a fee for advice on how to obtain work in the mines...it's everywhere on the internet. I guess one just has to use some common sense and be well informed when looking around.

The idea that Josie brings to this thread is more for information and an idea to open up options rather than limit oneself. The only thing she may be guilty of is providing a dodgy link. But the idea remains genuine.

Btw...Inpex is the global company heading the mining boom in the Territory.

I've never heard of a company called Australia Mining.

Yes with all thanks to josie as she meant to help other members to find better opportunity i like the idea :)
as i am always looking for better opportunity , but i believe if someone think there is something wrong as we are community here , he/she should inform other members at the end its personal decision to do whatever they want to do , whish you all better life :)

True...half truths can be considered negative however, and had you researched further, you would have found that Josies point of employment opportunities in Australia is quite accurate.

Tell me....did you join yesterday just to post that?

Being a New Zealander I can also verify there are mining jobs in Australia available. Thousands upon thousands of kiwis head over to Australia yearly for mining & other employment. In fact every member of my family has emmigrated there.

I will say one thing, I went to New Zealand a while back and they were in desperate need of nurses. They offer a big bonus sign on and they pay every thing except your food bills, they even send you back to the states twice a year. BUT you have to remember the money exchange is so different. NZ money is about half of ours. So if they say you make 80,000.00 it is like making 42,000.00 in the states. Our money is double there but everything is double in price!!!
I will say that New Zealand is a beautiful country but if you are dating one of their guys....the women are total wankers!! LOL had to use that word, sorry!!

Bummer, can someone remove the thingy on the top then. I did think it was a good idea as there seems to be so many people on mingle having trouble with work,
We are so lucky here. My 15 year old was offered an apprenticship as an electrician, my 17 year old has a good steady job anyone who wants work can find it..

if you are interested please be careful, but there are heaps of real jobs here and companies who want people, but as far as I know nobody who has come over has had to pay money to the company to get here.

Unsure~ It sounds like you had a bad experience with some kiwi ladies. I wouldn't label all kiwi women just because of a few. :-)

I guess you are right...sorry!

I highly doubt Josie is gonna trick us with scam links. I even checked the link myself, and I can confirm it's legit. Especially not when she comes here often and speaks to many of us. A scam is much more likely to come from someone who hardly posts in the forums. Scammers never post in forums.. Maybe once in a blue moon, but for a regular forum member to do that? Nah. There's a good reason why I would trust forum members much more than people who don't post in them.

I think everyone has to realize we are workers in a world economy.

The idea that good jobs are not going to be competed for by workers who are willing to seperate from family and go where ever the work is are deludeing themself.

I still maintain going to the jobs is going to have it's risks. Hopefully the demand for workers will help keep those risks low but I doubt it. Job demands have an arch and when you are on the declineing end you are going to find yourself in trouble.

Many foreign workers come to the USA because even though American workers seem to think that a job is suppose to be "fun" they know work is just that and show up and get with the program. As a manager I never had to tell an out of country worker to show up and do their job or take some initiative but local workers often wanted "bribes" just to show up. They would think they had the right to define their job description and pick and chose what parts they just were not going to bother to do. It is hard because you want to give people a chance but when you find a certain set of workers sleeping on the job and other covering for out right incompetence you wonder if the loyalty is not justified.

While it is much harder for small companies to hire workers without identification it amazes me how the bigger companies seem to just thumb their nose at requireing legit documentation. Of course they also seem to know exactly how much they can wring out of these workers and the abuses are not documented because nobody wants to tell.

There are many good job opportunuties in Australia, my son-in-law emigrated as a qualified electrician, although he did have to obtain his WA electricians licence which he did, he is employed in his trade and not in the mining industry. They wanted to emigrate to live and work in West Australia seeing a better life for themselves and the kids, as well as better future job prospects. It is working well for them, but they have had ups and downs, such is life wherever you choose to live.

LW...the only connection you have to Australia is your entire whanau have moved here...think about that.

Unsure...Australian jobs = Australian $. Last time i looked it was on a par with your own, so N.Z $ doesn't even feature into the equation. The only thing kiwi chicks won't do, is take shite (most of us anyway)...y'all must've dished it out for them to react the way that you said they did. ;-)

But back on topic before a meltdown erupts and it's insinuated that i'm something that i'm not simply because they have a serious case of NFI and suddenly develop knee jerk syndrome :-)

Options...that's what it's all about.

Opportunities are here if you have the desire, but if you're happy doing what you do then sweet az...stay where you are and continue to moan about it.

Faahhh..tain't a frakin ants life.