Dear Guest,
November is a wonderful time of year in Australia.
The weather is starting to warm in the southern states
and the anticipation of Summer and the new year build
as we approach the end of yet another year. How time flies!
Have you thought about where you would like to be
this time next year?
Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest
levels in 33 years (according to the Australian Bureau of
Statistics) and in the next year, Australia will also welcome
its greatest number of skilled migrants because there are
not enough people to fill jobs locally.
It takes time to prepare your application and the DIAC
processing period is taking longer due to increased applications.
So if you are hoping to move to Australia in 2008, I would suggest
you act soon and remember that the better your application is
prepared, the greater the chance it will be successful and
processed more quickly.
Warm Regards,
Assyl Haidar
CEO
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- Top study predicts Australian IT sector to surge
- So how do you like Australia?
- Top jobs - Top dollar
- How far can a migrant go?
- Skilled migrants kick goals with Queensland apprentices
- South Australia: Grace, pace and opportunity
- Aussie Surprise of the Month
- A Town like Mildura
- Up in the air over aerospace technology?
- In Brief
Top study predicts Australian IT sector to surge
An authoritative global study predicts Australia's IT industry
is set to create 40,000 new jobs and generate more than $11 billion
over the next four years.
The study, released by analyst IDC and software company Microsoft,
examined the IT industry's impact on local job creation,
company formation and tax revenues in 82 countries,
representing 99.5 per cent of IT spending worldwide.
It found that the Australian IT sector contributed
$30.75 billion, or three per cent, towards Australia's
gross domestic product (GDP).
The report also looked at the Microsoft "ecosystem"
- companies and professionals who create, sell, or
distribute products that run on Microsoft platforms -
which comprises about 40 per cent of total IT employment
in Australia.
Overall IT spending is expected to hit $30.75 billion
in 2007 and grow 3.6 per cent per year between now and 2011.
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So how do you like Australia?
- Monique Kamsma, Nederlands.
In Australia on a working holiday, Monique Kamsma found
her welding skills were needed urgently by Darwin company,
Universal Engineering Northern Territory.
Managing Director Steve Tiley offered to sponsor
her on a temporary business (long stay) subclass 457
visa and Monique agreed to give it a go.
"I would like to live here permanently," Monique said.
"There is lots of space and the weather is great. Everywhere
I go in Australia there are advertisements for welders.
I can't see myself going back to Holland."
Steve Tiley said Monique was one of five overseas skilled
workers employed at Universal Engineering because of skilled
labour shortages. Monique has found that working in a tough,
traditionally male field such as welding can be rewarding as
well as challenging.
The Australian Government will maintain skilled migration
to help meet Australia's short and long-term labour force needs.
Employer-sponsorship on a temporary basis can lead to a
permanent employer-sponsored visa.
"I'm really happy that the employer-sponsored temporary
entry program has given me the opportunity to become a first
class welder and contribute to the Australian economy as well,"
Monique said.
Monique from the Nederlands, loves life down-under!
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Top jobs - Top dollar
A new IT Pay around the world report puts Australian Information and Communications Technology(ICT)
specialist earnings above those of Japan, Hong Kong and the UK.
The report by Mercer ranks Australian ICT pay in the top ten
globally in manager, team leader, and professional-specialist categories.
- Only Switzerland, Denmark and Germany headed Australia in the professional-specialist category.
- In the management – team leader category Australian pay ranked eighth, at $AU85,436
- In the manager category Australia came tenth with an average pay of $AU99,640.
Mercer head of human capital Ken Gilbert said,
"Australia, which is facing a growing skills shortage
of IT professionals is now comparable with other
major Western countries. Australia dominates the
Asia Pacific region across the board of jobs, with Japan,
Hong Kong and South Korea offering the only real
competition in the region. Average pay for a top Aussie
ICT executive is $AU217,030."
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How far can a migrant go?
- Lord Mayor of Melbourne, John So.
Born in Hong Kong, John So moved to Melbourne, capital
of Victoria, as a 17 year old. He earned his science
degree and Diploma of Education from the University of
Melbourne, then taught science at Fitzroy High School
before opening his first restaurant in 1976.
A businessman and Justice of the Peace, Mr. So is
actively involved in tourism and ethnic community welfare
issues. He was a Commissioner of the Ethnic Affairs Commission
(1991-93) and is a past Vice President of the Melbourne
Chinatown Traders Association.
Mr. So was elected to the Melbourne City Council In 1991,
and has now won 4 consecutive elections. In 2001 he was
Melbourne's first popularly elected Lord Mayor. He is widely
respected for promoting Melbourne abroad, forging sister-city
relations with Osaka, Japan and Tianjin, China and working
within the Business Partner City Network of 12 global cities.
Prominent among his achievements is the successful
staging of the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Also in 2006,
he won the title World Mayor, an annual project organised
by City Mayors of many nations.
John So's passion for Melbourne, his enduring enthusiasm,
his humanity and modesty have made him very popular. As an
Asian immigrant, Melbourne's Lord Mayor is widely regarded
as a true example of the 'Australian dream'.
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Skilled migrants kick goals with Queensland apprentices
Mackay company Macs Engineering was having difficulty
meeting the demands of the booming Queensland mining
industry until it hired 10 British and 6 South African
boilermakers, sheetmetal workers and a painter under
the Australian Government's Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme.
These Skilled migrants solved two problems for the
engineering firm, which supplies truck and utility bodies for mine sites.
Company Director David Hinder said "It's an excellent
scheme for us. There is major development underway in the
Queensland coal industry and exports alone are worth about
$1.2 billion annually. The demand for skilled people is
critical and it's going to get tighter as exports increase."
David sourced the British workers through DIAC's
Australia Needs Skills Expo in London last year. "We
spoke to 90 tradespeople before finally employing 10 people,"
he said. "The expo was so successful we're doing the London,
Manchester and Dublin expos this year."
London boilermakers Chris Green and Daniel George,
moved to Mackay, where they now enjoy the relaxed Australian
lifestyle. Chris, settled in Mackay with his wife Rachel and
daughter Jessie, 18 months, and said he enjoyed family
activities including walking and collecting shells.
"I'm also enjoying passing on my skills to the apprentice," Chris said.
Daniel, 25, said that as well as earning more money
he had taken up sport again. He said. 'I'm playing
soccer for South Rangers and I scored a goal in my
first game!'
Lifestyle, well-paid satisfying work, balanced with
leisure and family life sound good? Contact an LIA advisor now.
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South Australia: Grace, pace and opportunity
South Australia (SA) was the only Australian state
never to have taken convicts from Britain. From November
1836, all settlement was by free settlers, mainly from
Britain and Germany. This resulted in a different 'ambience',
encouraging artistic and cultural innovations. Today's
migrants boost the state's industrial development and
also its cultural richness.
Statistics released recently show the state had a net
overseas migration of 4800 people in the March 2007,
quarter - the highest level in 25 years. According
to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average
quarterly migration for 2006 was about 2800. For the
year ending March 31, SA had an overseas migration
gain of 12,600 people.
SA Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry
and Trade, Karlene Maywald, said the Government had
committed $267 million over four years to help settle
migrants in SA.
"In our fast-expanding economy, it's crucial that we
have a range of strategies to develop and maintain our
skilled workforce - attracting and retaining people from
interstate and overseas are crucial components," she said.
"By helping facilitate new arrivals to the state into
employment, the skills of migrants are better used and the
likelihood of their leaving for interstate to find work is reduced."
Attracted to a long heritage of liberty, innovation and culture? Contact LIA today.
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Aussie Surprise of the Month
So who invented the rotary lawn mower? Today, they are
made in many countries and turn grass into lawn on every
continent ... well, probably not Antarctica! So it might
surprise you to learn Lawrence Hall, a boat engine builder
of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1948 invented a rotary
blade lawnmower, to cut his parents lawn.
His Mowhall had blades mounted onto a plough disc and
used a kerosene tin as the petrol tank, a boat motor and
a tubular steel frame. It was so heavy that his son and
nephew had to pull it across the lawn with a rope, as
well as push it.
However, Mervyn Victor Richardson saw Hall's mower
demonstrated in a Sydney park and, four years later, he
tinkered together a lightweight, cheap, prototype rotary-blade
lawnmower, with a peach tin for a petrol tank and a
two-stroke engine.
It proved the ideal machine to tame the rough grass of
backyards throughout Australia's burgeoning suburban sprawl.
Within two years, Richardson had sold 20,000 Victa brand mowers
and was already exporting them. In 1992 the five millionth
Victa rolled off the assembly line of the world's biggest
lawnmower factory.
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log onto LIA and mow down your problems.
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A Town like Mildura
Mildura is a thriving Victorian city of 25,000, on
the Murray River, 557 kilometres (346 miles) northwest
of Melbourne.
After a major drought from 1877 to 1884 the area
developed the irrigation systems that made Mildura an
important food producer for domestic and export markets.
Now, Mildura is Australia's fastest growing inland centre
and the heart of the Sunraysia Food Bowl, which produces
citrus fruits (especially oranges), dried fruits, olives,
grains, vegetables, citrus and 80% of Victoria's wine
and table grapes.
Mildura has a Mediterranean climate with dry summers and mild
winters, with an average rainfall of about 250mm, falling between
May and October. This climate is ideal for al fresco dining, outdoor
festivals, exploring national parks and water sports on the Murray
and Darling rivers. There are numerous indoor and outdoor sporting
facilities, many of international standard.
Economic growth is robust and there are many employment
opportunities for plumbers, electricians, carpenters and
joiners among other tradespersons.
Mildura boasts high quality primary and secondary schools, a
Latrobe University campus, TAFE institutions, as well as modern
hospitals and medical clinics servicing the Sunraysia district's 50,000
residents.
If the idea of a sunny future in a prosperous city appeals,
contact LIA without delay.
Mildura City Council: http://www.mildura.vic.gov.au/
Mildura Information: http://www.visitmildura.com.au/about-the-region.html
La Trobe University: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/mildura/
Sunraysia Mallee Economic Development Board http://www.smedb.com.au/main.asp?a=5
Beautiful Mildura in the north west corner of Victoria
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Up in the air over aerospace technology?
Nova Defence
was established by Jim Whalley and Peter Nikoloff,
whose specialised skills were developed within the Australian
Defence Force (ADF) flight test community.
Nova is based at the Salisbury defence complex, adjacent
to the Edinburgh RAAF base, north of Adelaide. But specialists
in aerospace technology are a rare breed. Those who test and
evaluate highly complex systems such as those used by the
ADF are rare, like Doug Friend, a helicopter-test engineer
specialising in structures.
It costs millions of dollars to train a test pilot and
almost as much for a flight-test engineer and this kind of
training isn't available in Australia, so Nova Defence has
hired a UK flight test engineer and a systems safety expert
from Italy, a Canadian flight test engineer, a British weapons
specialist, a Canadian electronic-warfare test specialist, a
PhD level specialist in aerodynamics from the United Kingdom
and an airborne self-protection specialist from the United
States of America.
All came to Australia on temporary business (long stay)
subclass 457 visas. "The 457 visas enable us to get these
people here quickly, otherwise we could not do it," Jim said.
Temporary stay, skilled migrants play a vital role in the
Australian economy. Not only do they help business and industry
meet their goals and schedules, they play a critical role in
supporting and training young workers.
Help build Australia's security by strengthening the ADF.
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and let us guide you on your journey to the land of opportunity!
Nova Defence in South Australia
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In Brief
Vale: John Ilhan
After arriving from Turkey at the age of three, John
Ilhan became one of Australia's most successful immigrants.
He died suddenly at only 42, while on a fitness walk near
his beachfront home in Brighton, Melbourne. As well as
a grieving family, Mr. Ilhan leaves a mobile phone business,
which he started in 1991, in suburban Brunswick.
His company, Crazy John's, now has more than 120 stores
across Australia and more than 600 staff. Mr. Ilhan quickly
established a reputation as a generous – and usually anonymous
- benefactor to numerous charities and small sporting clubs.
For example, he established the John Ilhan Food Allergy
Foundation with a grant of $1million after discovering his
daughter had a dangerous allergy to peanuts.
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More Asians bring their skills to Oz
While still behind New Zealand and the United Kingdom,
increasing numbers of skilled immigrants from Asian nations
are being welcomed into Australia. The official migration
program is focused on skilled migration to ensure that
new arrivals can quickly join the work force and integrate
smoothly into Australian society. Asian countries that
showed increases include:
- India with 13,496 settlers arriving in 2006-07, up from 11,286 in 2005-06
- China with 12,009 settlers arriving in 2006-07, up from 10,581 in 2006-06, and
- the Philippines with 5,561 settler arrivals in 2006-07, up from 4,871 in 2005-06.
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Aussie Word of the Month
Woop Woop - any remote town or location.
Aussie words in action: Whether you want to live in a big city or
up Woop Woop somewhere, your LIA Migration Advisor has the facts you need.
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Best Regards,
Peter Seers
Marketing & Client Services Manager
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