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Hi everyone. The rugby World Cup is almost upon us. As Australia is in England's group we have an important match to watch. Unfortunately it's on a Sunday morning at 5am lol. Where are we going to watch this? With a big crowd etc? And some beer lol. I'd hate to miss this lol. We're in the North but doesn't matter where as long as the crowd is there. Suggestions please ????

Hi everyone. The company I work for carry out infrastructure works on new housing sites in Adelaide. We are on the look out for experienced ground workers that are familiar with house building roads and sewers. Knowledge of sewers, pipe laying etc is required. Pm

Me if your interested.

Thanks Mark

Para hills community club are showing it. 10:30am I believe.

Rember your shorts and sunnies it's boiling here ;-)

Hi guys. If your on FB join poms in Adelaide on there as well. We are in Pooraka not far from you and are a 40 something couple with no kids lol. Happy to meet up ;-)

It's not just oz format for your cv. You'll need to translate it. Ie change things like VAT in UK is GST here. Etc.

ADL5065. Would you or know anyone looking for someone to look after accounts/ wages / tax etc? & general office duties. My OH is looking hard ATM. Cheers

Where my daughter works they had 300 applicants for their receptionist vacancy, (was filled by a girl from Coventry)

Hi Nobby can I ask the company name? My OH is accounts, wages, GST etc and has been applying for all sorts of office based roles to get in the door. We're interested on how to stand out from the rest lol. Cheers

Ko is 19:10. Pm me and I'll give contact details so we can arrange meeting place/ time etc

Hi. I'm going to watch Adelaide at the oval against Melbourne on Friday night. If anyone wants to come watch some soccer (football lol) let me know and we can meet there.

Hi minty. Our container arrived Friday. So I've got the 110v transformer for you m8. Pm me your detail and we can meet up. ;-)

Bring everything you can fit in. We packed out container to the max but still left things we regretted and should have made room for. Lol just remember every item you leave you will probably have to replace once here. And the costs keep rising. Good luck

Hackney (Adelaide Cavarvan Park)

Now Pooraka.

Hi we were in UK when we renewed a passport. Filled out the correct form and emailed it to our CO who handled are visa. We head nothing back so contacted Oz embassy in London and they confirmed new passport was linked to our visa. Hope this helps.

Hi everyone.

Well we finally got here to sunny Adelaide. We have been here approx 1 week and heres how it went.

Got off plane at 08:20 Tuesday morning and after clearing customs etc we jumped in a cab (wagon) as we had too many cases for a normal cab and were whisked off to our short term base camp. We decided to book into Adelaide camp site in Hackney, which is just North of the CBD so right near all the action. Not that we were intending on attending it as its not a holiday its moving our life lol. So before jet lag could grab hold we jumped in a cab again and headed for Avis rent a car. No particular reason just was the first we walked into. Got a small run about and plugged the sat nav in and drove off lol. We had already decided we wanted to settle in the north east area of Adelaide so we started driving in that area and stopping at evey real estate shop we saw and grabbed the rental lists. Not to bore you with the details but we spent the next 4 days house hunting, stopping at McDonalds every morning to jump on the wifi to look for houses. As we knew from here about the open day viewing of the properties it was quite easy to deal with. Once we found the house we wanted we had a chat with the agent and did the deal. Advise. We had already opened an Oz bank account from UK and had transferred our house sale money into it. We still had no cards as they were still on order so we popped into a branch and they happly printed off the balance and stamped and signed it. Once we showed we had enough money the house was ours.

Now we have an address next week we can get our medicare, driving licence tax number etc and the job hunting starts.

Its been an emotional week and very scary and i will tell everyone about to make the journey, just keep focussed and get a good nights sleep each night cause youll need the energy. We stopped using the satnav after day 1 and started map reading so we learnt the streets, after day 3 we could drive all around North east adelaide without help. Tomorrow we head south to explore there.

Will update next week once we are in our house etc

Good luck everyone

Mark & Tracey

Hi everyone.

Well our container has left and we now have 5 weeks left living with/on cardboard boxes lol. We arrive in Adelaide end of August and are booked in a camp site for the first week. We are looking for a 6 month ish unfurnished rental in the Enfield, Pooraka area and we would welcome any advise from all you experts lol.

Our container left today and we fly 5 weeks Sunday. See you on the other side m8 good luck

Don't worry I have a couple from work so up can have one. I don't want anything for it m8. I'll pm u my email :-)

I'm arriving end of August so can bring you one m8 if you like ;-)

Cheers gazza68. I used to work for Laing O'Rourke in the 1990's. Ive sent them a cv so fingers crossed. Thanks for the info. ;-)

Hi everyone. I'm a qualified civil engineer with 20+ years exp. site based not design. I will be arriving in August and would like to get an idea of who the local Civils companies are and make contact with them. Thanks in advance ;-)

I think it helps them if your appliying from UK etc as due to time difference its difficult for them if they wish to contact them. If you include copies they can just read them when they wish. I didn't attach any at first, but have started to now. Lets see what happens LOL

Hi. Has your OH taken the IELTS? Most of us needed it for the points and some need it for skills assessment. Then he'll need a positive skills assessment. This all needs to be done before you can lodge an EOI. Just a heads up. There's lots of knowledgable people on here very happy to help. Welcome and good luck

Ahh 489's are good. Better than 457's. I'd say take it. I've been waiting for my 190 since August with 65 points. Quotas are almost full and looks like a wait till the July reset.

Do you mean a 457 visa?