1.3 million Brits resident in Australia
Dec 11th 2006, 8:48 pm
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Re: 1.3 million Brits resident in Australia
Originally Posted by isgraham
The problem with the EU is that some of the more enlightened ideas such as working time directive were not imposed on the UK and I and probably most others were forced to opt out and work very long hours (in my case for no extra pay). This clearly upsets the work life balance in favour of work. My experience here is that you work hard but hours are reasonable and I haven't had to work weekends. In my opinion it was we got the bad from the EU and non of the good.
UK is meant to have some of the longest working hours in the developed world though, and i'm sure that's not a good thing.
Dec 12th 2006, 6:05 pm
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Re: 1.3 million Brits resident in Australia
Originally Posted by esperanza
Is that 2.5% of the UK population is in Australia, or Brits in Oz make up 2.5% of the Australian population? I'm guessing the latter?
Also I wonder where the figures came from - is it people with visas, or everyone? (Not arguing with them, just interested to know what they really mean)
Also I wonder where the figures came from - is it people with visas, or everyone? (Not arguing with them, just interested to know what they really mean)
The 1.3 million Brits in Oz figure comes from another BBC news page
1.3 million is equivalent to 2.5% of the UK population of 60,441,457 according to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/.../2119rank.html.
BBC quote they got stats from institute for public policy research
Figures are estimates of the estimated number of nationals believed to have lived in the country for a year or longer.
Thats as far as I can make out anyway, I have absolutely no expertise in statistics whatsoever, this is just what I found when I went to look!
Dec 13th 2006, 9:00 am
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Re: 1.3 million Brits resident in Australia
Originally Posted by esperanza
With portuguese (& therefore espanol!) you will get french really easily. Have a go!
Errr... don't think so, the grammer is very different in french (no gerund or phrasel verbs and pronounciation is totally different (liasons, not pronouncing the last letter etc whereas Spanish and Portuguese are more phonetic, faux amis). I speak Portuguese albeit the Brazilian variety... and i cannot understand Spanish at all well (although better at Latin American Spanish.. don't need loads of phlegm and a lisp to use it). I have also spent most of my life trying to learn French and failed...
maybe i am just rubbish at languages...
Dec 13th 2006, 9:21 am
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Re: 1.3 million Brits resident in Australia
Originally Posted by chrispy
Errr... don't think so, the grammer is very different in french (no gerund or phrasel verbs and pronounciation is totally different (liasons, not pronouncing the last letter etc whereas Spanish and Portuguese are more phonetic, faux amis). I speak Portuguese albeit the Brazilian variety... and i cannot understand Spanish at all well (although better at Latin American Spanish.. don't need loads of phlegm and a lisp to use it). I have also spent most of my life trying to learn French and failed...
maybe i am just rubbish at languages...
maybe i am just rubbish at languages...
I'd still encourage anyone to take up a new language, I LOVE languages!
Dec 13th 2006, 9:32 am
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Re: 1.3 million Brits resident in Australia
The IPPR report was mentioned in yesterday's (Glasgow) Herald and the stat they picked out of the report to headline the article was that 1 in 8 Scots live overseas (which of course is a higher proportion than 5.5 mill out of 60 mill for the UK as a whole).
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/76526.html
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http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/76526.html
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Originally Posted by Barcop
Hi the figure that 106,404 people born in Australia were in the UK in 2001, some 0.19% of the population comes from BBC news site
The 1.3 million Brits in Oz figure comes from another BBC news page
1.3 million is equivalent to 2.5% of the UK population of 60,441,457 according to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/.../2119rank.html.
BBC quote they got stats from institute for public policy research
Figures are estimates of the estimated number of nationals believed to have lived in the country for a year or longer.
Thats as far as I can make out anyway, I have absolutely no expertise in statistics whatsoever, this is just what I found when I went to look!
The 1.3 million Brits in Oz figure comes from another BBC news page
1.3 million is equivalent to 2.5% of the UK population of 60,441,457 according to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/.../2119rank.html.
BBC quote they got stats from institute for public policy research
Figures are estimates of the estimated number of nationals believed to have lived in the country for a year or longer.
Thats as far as I can make out anyway, I have absolutely no expertise in statistics whatsoever, this is just what I found when I went to look!
