Let’s press on with a reprint of another one of my articles for Australia and New Zealand magazine. I know a lot of people considering a move to Australia have concerns about our health system. After all, the NHS in the UK is free and healthcare in Australia isn’t. Let’s clear that up a little; [...]
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Some time ago a reader called Shaun posted several comments (if this link breaks, please let me know in the comments below and I will fix it) on my website listing all the reasons why he returned to Europe after just five months of living in New South Wales. Clearly Australia didn’t work out for [...]
One of the main concerns for anyone considering moving to Australia, especially those who aren’t so young, is the cost of health services here. As you know, we had a federal budget not so long ago which I wrote about in my post The Misery Index 2013: a Response to Australia’s Budget. Top of my [...]
Good question. And one that I’ve not yet got my head fully around even though I have now lived here almost 6 years. I’ve had quite a few close encounters of the medical kind since being here though, so I can sum it up my own few words. “It works very well, but it is [...]
What do you get if you take one professional dog walker, two dogs, a dog park and put them all together on one hot spring evening? Let me be more specific. The professional dog walker is none other than the director of Dog Walks Pty Ltd and also partner in the local pet care business, [...]
I have a lot to learn about the Australian healthcare system. But I’ll tell you what I do know. As soon as we arrived, we had to register for a “Medicare” card. This card has the appearance of a credit card but doesn’t work in Kmart. I’ll tell you about Kmart another time. We registered [...]
