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Christmas Trees in Australia.

BobinOz — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:51:17 +0000

Not only is Christmas in the middle of summer here in Australia, but they also have school summer holidays at Christmas time too! Yes, I know that makes sense, summer holidays in winter would be stupid! But at the same time, a six-week summer holiday break with Christmas slap bang in the middle of it [...]

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Christmas Trees in Australia.

Television Advertising: Australia and the UK Compared.

BobinOz — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:01:56 +0000

For many years now I have been a “timeshifter”. I don’t mean that I have a tardis or that I traverse space and time in any way, but I do record television programs to watch later. As a result of this I very rarely, if ever, watch a TV programme as it happens. The big [...]

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Television Advertising: Australia and the UK Compared.

The OECD Best Country Better Life Index

BobinOz — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:19:27 +0000

We had not featured a survey on this blog for a while until Monday’s offering about the cost of living comfortably in Australia. But it seems surveys are like buses; nothing for ages and then three come along together. Today I read that 15-year-old Australian students came joint second with New Zealand (behind Korea) on [...]

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The OECD Best Country Better Life Index

Where’s All My Money Gone?

BobinOz — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:20:24 +0000

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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Where’s All My Money Gone?

Buying a second-hand car in Australia Compared to England

BobinOz — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:51:57 +0000

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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Buying a second-hand car in Australia Compared to England

Finding a Job in Australia Compared with the UK.

BobinOz — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:08:58 +0000

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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Finding a Job in Australia Compared with the UK.

Australian Education: A Half Term Report

BobinOz — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:30:17 +0000

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: A Half Term Report

Australian Education Standards Compared to the UK and USA.

BobinOz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:20:22 +0000

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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Australian Education Standards Compared to the UK and USA.

Australia versus the UK: Sin.

BobinOz — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:58:43 +0000

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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Australia versus the UK: Sin.

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

BobinOz — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:37:31 +0000

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