Originally Posted by Darren S

You only need to use the space provided on the TRA and not seperate sheets. You hae to give detail but not too much for every task otherwise it won't fit on the form. That's the way I filled in the TRA and was accepted- Only in rotherham so not far from you!
Darren

Originally Posted by Jonahs_mummy

I agree - that Esme.... she was so rude!

Originally Posted by spalen

I introduced 'mullet man' to the thread.... so I ought to explain.

There was a melissa porter + that bald bloke with fake tan programme - get a new life, 1 hour on a family that were emigrating to Brisbane. Its a good show ..

The hubby was a funny bloke, electrician, and had cultivated a mullett haircut out of respect for Jo Mangle from Neighbours. He even rented a 'ute' when he got to brissie airport "because jo had one".

They had two kids, v.small about 3/4 , the wife was a fitness instructor. They did the programme, showed a bit of brisbane including some of South Bank, showed him getting work / electrician creditation etc. It was quite fun. They enjoyed it , and stayed at the end.

I think this was the last series or series -1 . This thing that was on last night was 1.5yrs old. and a whole host of families, there were at least 2 more, a welsh family who post on here sometimes and another I think whjo I remember bought thier own house and were having a pool laid with two older sons, dad was an air-con engineer and so was son #'1. There were hours of these weekly proggies - they're on SKY weekly , they used ot be on daily etc... They were on tongight somewhere earound channel 127 at about 6 pm and repeated at 7pm so watch out for them - tehy show a good slice of what life is like for these families. Obviously its edited to show the problems but hey-ho.

I think the reason that the great lady from Blackpool got to stay was she was married to the Aussie husband and domestic violence was involved - so (quite rightly) the Aussie Govt decide NOT to kick her out of the country just because her relationship breaks up for violence. That was the specific reason - Im only quoting what was on the programme so hope this doesnt cause anybody offence.

Whilst we're on the subject - Im not sure its appropriate to comment about Esme who is a child , If anyone commented about our children we'd go loopy so perhaps we (as adults) could drop the discussions in that respect. Chidlren cant' defend themselves so shouldnt be the subject of an open forum.

Originally Posted by debreeve

hi , im also dying to know how mullet man & family are doing , im surprised they havnt shown their update yet as i know they were flying out to do it in oct 2003 as we were then about to take part in the second series and one crew were fling out just b4 us to do it .
and i promise i will post our report on the reeve family update a yr after "get a new life " as so many have asked , but once i get started i find it hard to stop .
must just add my own comments on "mandy skeggs" ive read alot of peoples comments and did manage to catch part of the many many repeats featuring her , my god what was she like , -- but dont know if any of u in oz caught a follow up on her some months ago they had her on a show like current afairs or 60 mins giving her side , yes she did whinge a lot and slag the aussies down!!! but as we all know ther is a lot of good editing , they even took her out to bye new undies ,
i felt on our show all they really did was to show me crying & being home sick didnt really show me having loads of fun with kev & my boys and mostly kev fishing & playing golf !!! oh well that was pretty true , we still laugh about it .
anyway bye for now good luck to all still on their way ,
xx debs & co xxxx

Originally Posted by Professional Princess

I get the feeling that they would rather show the bad parts of a family's emmigration.

Originally Posted by worzel

I suppose there is less entertainment value in a family that settle in quickly and for whom everything goes smoothly. Don't they realise there are thousands of us saddo's actually watching this for educational purposes

Originally Posted by worzel

I suppose there is less entertainment value in a family that settle in quickly and for whom everything goes smoothly. Don't they realise there are thousands of us saddo's actually watching this for educational purposes

Originally Posted by Professional Princess

I know. I could watch these programmes all night and then cry because Im not there.

I wish we could see their struggle just to get there though.

Diary of a would-be migrant or something.

Originally Posted by OzTennis

The program was about 3 families (or groups of people) - Singleton's from Blackpool, Russell's from Bath and Skeggs' from Hertfordshire.

Singleton was the 4 times married lady with 2 children who went on a spouse visa with an Aussie born (but sounded English) husband but she split up and eventually got permanent residency (because their relationship split up due to his violence); Russell was the vicar's daughter with 2 children from previous relationships who went on a business visa in the name of her partner who eventually returned to Bath so she was applying for her own business visa (had to achieve $200K turnover and employ two locals within 2 months); Skeggs is as said above is best remembered for her 'white hearses', 'traffic lights', 'you know what those Orstralians are like they would shoot my cats', 'those birds sound p****d off too' , 'they don't do knickers like M&S' etc comments.

Even though Mandy was still whinging she said she was settled in Perth and enjoying life there as were all the others (with the possible exception of the boy from Blackpool).

I seem to remember at least 2, possibly all 3, of them posting on here in the past - 'I'm not really like how I come across in the programs etc'.

Originally Posted by Tiawamutu

Does anyone know if they still post on here? and what were they called?