Moving to Australia - Related News
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New South Wales economy continues to lead Australia
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New South Wales economy continues to lead Australia
New South Wales has maintained its spot as Australia's top-performing state economy, while the Northern Territory is growing faster than anywhere else, according to CommSec's latest snapshot of the Australian economy.
Immigration Ignites Fiery Debate in Australian Election Campaign
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Australia votes in a federal election in July, and immigration will be a key issue. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has stoked controversy by saying illiterate and innumerate refugees would take Australian jobs. Critics say his comments were racist. But immigration played a key part in the election of the center-right coalition in 2013.
Job prospects across Australia
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Over 60% of new jobs created in Australia in the past 12 months have been filled by women, highlighting the many positive job prospects across Australia.
Auckland house prices rising.. Australia house prices stalling
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Real estate sure is a rollercoaster ride in NZ. Over the last 12-24 months, real estate prices in Auckland have soared, and don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
It’s the hot topic in the media at the moment too. Every week we read about average Kiwis who can’t get on the property ladder, foreign investors inflating the market, and the Reserve Bank’s latest failed measures to control the rising prices.
However, across the ditch, the property market is telling a different story to Auckland right now.
Chasing the Australian dream
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Australia's wages are higher, but are expats really any better off?
After a four-year degree, surveyor Robert Rameka discovered he was earning the same amount of money as his brother who had left school for Australia to drive a forklift.
Krystal and Warwick Green left Hawke's Bay on a whim, took three days to find jobs in Queensland and are earning triple what they did in New Zealand. Now owners of their own home and with a baby on the way, they have no plans to return.
House price rise tipped for next year
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House prices are tipped to rise next financial year as Australia's fastest population growth in two decades outweighs the effect of higher interest rates, an economic forecaster says.
The BIS Shrapnel Residential Property Prospects' 2008 to 2011 report, also says that banks may offer more attractive lending rates in 2009.
Aussies sledge NZ over survey
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The Aussies are revolting over Auckland's high placing in an international quality of life survey.
The city was named as the fifth best city to live in, trumping Sydney (10th), Melbourne (17th), Perth (21st), Adelaide (29th) and Brisbane (34th). Wellington also topped four Australian cities placing 12th.
Australian property market 'recovering'
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New data shows the Australian housing market has seen its strongest growth since the financial crisis took hold.
The figures from Australian Property Monitors show house prices rose more than 3.3 per cent on average across the country in the June quarter.
That is the strongest quarterly growth in prices since December 2007.
Shifting sands for Kiwi migrants - is it really better in Australia?
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Danielle Wright looks into employment opportunities awaiting New Zealand workers across the Tasman.
It's easy to think the grass is greener elsewhere, but moving to Australia involves a fair amount of luck and persistence on the work front with the employment market lagging behind New Zealand's.
As well as an uncertain economic outlook, there's the lack of safety nets for Kiwi workers across the Ditch.
Australia's jobless rate drops to 33-year low
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CANBERRA - The unemployment rate dropped to a fresh 33-year low of 4.1 per cent in January, fuelling speculation of another interest rate hike.
The unemployment rate fell to a seasonally-adjusted 4.1 per cent in January compared with 4.3 per cent in December and surpassing last September's 4.2 per cent trough, data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows.
