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Entitlement Mentality: a personal perspective
All forms of media has been nothing short of drowning in Joe Hockey’s suggestion that Australia has an entitlement mentality which needs to be cut back. I am only going to link to one article, for the...
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Lodging a Partner visa application April 2012
Reblogged from Australian Immigration Blog - Grant Williams: I get a huge number of questions relating to Partner onshore (820/801) & Partner offshore (309/100) visa applications. The most common...
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Claiming Compensation from the government
Back in August last year I gave up on the idea of ever receiving any financial remedy from the government. I had consulted various knowledgable people and wrote Is the law and ass? Earlier this week,...
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Ranjini needs our help to encourage the government to find a better way
There has also been media coverage. Below is a quotation from Ranjini’s husband in an article appearing in The Age. “We were happy and the kids were even happier … we wanted to start new life with...
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Medicare and the final stage of Partner Visa processing
As readers know from our previous experience, Medicare and the sub-class 309 Partner Visa are strange bedfellows. The 309 visa holder and dependents are all entitled to full Medicare enrolment and...
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Partner (Spouse) Visa Applications and certified copies
I have written several articles about Partner (Spouse) Visa applications in the past, yet not once have I explained “certified copies”. In speaking to several people lately who are submitting Partner...
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Residual fragility + giving up smoking = tears
I took a few days off on holiday. I needed a rest, as I pointed out in My holiday week that was yesterday. While this has been a great year, an immense year, I have realised today we, or at least I,...
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A heartfelt thank you received
Overnight I received a very touching email. I asked permission to share part of that email. There have been many nights during which I have been so afraid of getting a refusal and couldn’t sleep, and...
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Purportedly Telstra calls: scam or not?
I referred to a little tiff with Telstra in my Almost the end of the year article the other day. I would like to stress I have been with Telstra for 40 years and in all that time this is only the...
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Heads or tails? Are lives so unimportant?
A shorter version of this article by me has previously been published on Independent Australia, titled “Toss a coin, get a visa” During 2010 – 2011 I fought a mammoth battle against the Department of...
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The Telstra calls resolved
On December 18 last year I lodged a complaint with the Telecommunications Ombudsman. Yesterday I had a call from the Complaints Department of Telstra. Thankfully this time I did not get the “nothing...
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Now Available on Amazon!
Just click on the cover image below to buy Love versus Goliath! Other retailers will follow shortly. I invite those followers who have read the book already to leave a comment and of course invite them...
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Will it NEVER end?
Yes, you can put the “f” word in the heading. I just try very hard not to use bad words on here. I am furious, frustrated and feeling completely “done over” by the “system”. Why, you ask? I hoped you’d...
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Day 3 of the default drama
We still do not actually have a copy of the bill, but it is coming. Despite the fact we are in no way liable for this $208, we paid it. Sorting it out with the Red Cross and DIAC could take months,...
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User pays or profiteering? Partner Visa fees
In principle, I have no problem with the concept of user pays. I have a major problem if someone takes money and I get nothing for it. There are costs involved in applying for visas. Here I am looking...
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If human rights is not something you think about, I invite to read Dr George...
Dr Venturni has an impressive legal bio. He has started a new series of articles on Independent Australia looking at “the history and reasons for Australia’s current unfair and illegal refugee policy”....
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They are doing my head in!!!!!
A couple of days ago I wrote about my current paper warfare! Chasing up a medical appointment and it seems somewhere something went awry. Having heard nothing, despite the promise to call me back,...
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A letter from the Office of the Prime Minister
I am sure the Prime Minister will not mind me sharing the letter I received today from her office. For security reasons, I have blocked out my address and the name of the staff member who signed the...
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FINAL Medicare application
Mr O often says “Australia will kill a person with paperwork”. I often tend to agree! Yesterday we dashed off to the Medicare office to enrol Mr O and all the little Os for the third and final time!...
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Spreading the word is hard work
It is not a secret that I have been a quest speaker in relation to partner visas at CPD (professional development) seminars for migration agents of late. The convener of these sessions is Michael...
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