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Australia vs UK

Where’s All My Money Gone?

13 August 2010 Australia vs UK
Money

Who is it, here in Australia, who takes on average 23 cents out of every dollar Australians spent? Surely there is only one answer to that, it has to be the taxman doesn’t it? No, it isn’t. Would you like a clue? Okay, so you’ve run out of milk, sugar, breakfast cereals and of course [...]

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Buying a second-hand car in Australia Compared to England

4 August 2010 Australia vs UK
volvo

When I left England back in November 2007 I sold my car for £250. That’s around $400 in Aussie money. Not a lot, was it? But I loved my old car; I’d had it for about seven years. It was a Volvo Wentworth 940 Estate, 1991. It had done a few miles, around 170,000 if [...]

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Finding a Job in Australia Compared with the UK.

21 July 2010 Australia vs UK
work

Searching for work in Australia. One of the most common questions I’m asked over at the Ask Bob section of the website is “what’s it like to find a job in Australia?” Like many questions, it’s a moving target. When we first moved here late in 2007 it seemed Australia was in the middle of [...]

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Australian Education: A Half Term Report

31 March 2010 Australia vs UK
green Hair

We’ve recently had a few articles about education in Australia, most recently I compared Australian education standards with those of the UK and the USA. Narrowing the field down slightly, today I’m going to look at the educational standards of one 6 year old little girl. My little girl. In January she started her first [...]

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Australian Education Standards Compared to the UK and USA.

3 March 2010 Australia vs UK
teacher

I think it started when I got an email from Vivienne, a lady who has moved from Australia to the UK. She felt quite strongly that educational standards in the UK were better than here in Australia. I promised to look into it. Then, in a post I wrote about the cost of education in [...]

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Australia versus the UK: Sin.

1 February 2010 Australia vs UK
devil

It’s better than that! It’s Australia versus the rest of the world. This article hit the news the other day here in Australia and probably where you are too, and it has been met with hoots of derision. Apparently, the BBC has a science and technology magazine and in the latest edition they have announced [...]

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“Who Can That Be, That Flies Through The Sky?”

22 December 2009 Australia vs UK
Santa

….”It IS who you think, but instead driven by……..” The more observant of you would have noticed something strange about Santa’s reindeer in yesterday’s post about Christmas house lights. For those of you who aren’t so observant, let me help you out. As you can no doubt see, the reindeer appear to be in the [...]

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Australia Versus England: Drunken Violence

18 December 2009 Australia vs UK

Since moving to Australia I have stopped reading daily newspapers. I was beginning to bore with the papers in the UK just before I emigrated, so I really couldn’t see the point of immersing myself daily in Australian news when I got here. But I do like to check the online news here in Australia, [...]

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