Time to ask for the Union-Jack back.
Feb 18th 2008 | 4:51 pm
#107
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,521
From: Brisbane, Australia
Re: Time to ask for the Union-Jack back.
I started posting in here ages ago as I lived overseas twice before and moved back to the UK so can offer experience of moving back. I am very happy here but I am not of the UK is crap, australia is wonderful brigade. I came to Australia because I could, not because I was escaping the UK The village where I grew up in Lancashire is a beautiful place but has problems and there are problems here in Perth that are pretty much the same.
I have had a lovely morning, been down to Cottesloe for morning tea. English breakfast tea and some beautiful sandwiches and cakes. Very english it was too. People can come on here and still have a life you know. Does that mean that once you have moved back that we won't hear from you again.
I have had a lovely morning, been down to Cottesloe for morning tea. English breakfast tea and some beautiful sandwiches and cakes. Very english it was too. People can come on here and still have a life you know. Does that mean that once you have moved back that we won't hear from you again.
NB - do you move around with OH's job or did you go back to UK twice previously due to homesickness? Wondering if you are ping ponger or just like living in different places?
Feb 18th 2008 | 4:56 pm
#108
Gutter Gob!!
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 13,098
From: Perth
Re: Time to ask for the Union-Jack back.
Yep, a bit like Dunroving and Flea who have done a few different moves back and forth (sometimes sideways LOL!). I think it's great to get input from people who have been there and worn the tshirt.
NB - do you move around with OH's job or did you go back to UK twice previously due to homesickness? Wondering if you are ping ponger or just like living in different places?
NB - do you move around with OH's job or did you go back to UK twice previously due to homesickness? Wondering if you are ping ponger or just like living in different places?
Feb 18th 2008 | 5:03 pm
#109
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From: Brisbane, Australia
Re: Time to ask for the Union-Jack back.
US - home was homesickness. Canada to home was job move and lack of PR status in Canada. Although the first 6 months in Canada were truly the worst time of my life, a trip home after 6 months cured my homesickness thankfully for me. Then the move to Perth was meant to be temporary until our Canadian PR came through. Perth is now home and we now have our PR too, only only 15 months before we are eligible to apply for citizenship.
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Feb 18th 2008 | 6:35 pm
#110
to be or not to be...
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 195
Re: Time to ask for the Union-Jack back.
However I think the idea of stars straight on the aborginal flag yes, not bad, but I do agree about the red,white and blue too. Food for thought, I wonder how the average Aussie feels about it. I think I will go post on the OZ forum and see what happens.
Feb 19th 2008 | 8:04 am
#111
Bendy Bully
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 281
From: It's the wrong answer, and there's a light on.
Re: Time to ask for the Union-Jack back.
Have they ever been formally asked? If they have, it seems not everyone is in agreement:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...29/2148354.htm
"What else can happen to Aboriginal people? I mean, you've taken our land. What else can you do to us?"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...29/2148354.htm
"What else can happen to Aboriginal people? I mean, you've taken our land. What else can you do to us?"
Feb 19th 2008 | 10:45 pm
#112
Australia's Doorman
Joined: Jan 2005
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From: The Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
Feb 20th 2008 | 11:36 am
#113
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Posts: 4,395
From: England
Re: Time to ask for the Union-Jack back.
Oh when you are a city girl at heart....40 mins is the bush to me!!!!! and in the summer time no matter where I go I always take a bottle of water with me......
