Your Aids for Planning Settlement in Australia

Tabulated below the Chart are links you may find useful as a starting point for your personal research.

 1. Orientation:

To Start with the Globe, then rotate to Australia, then to any chosen location, and then Zoom in. Click Google Earth. There is alternative satellite data available from NASA facility. A wide range of landmarks can be readily viewed: click on Wiki link. (Our Parramatta office in Sydney is Latitude 33 degrees 48 mins 47.38 seconds South Longitude 151 degrees 00 minutes 22.49 seconds East.)

Information detailed for a street directory search: click on Where IS 

For the current national tourist promotion click on  Where the bloody hell are you. Make sure you play the video and slideshows.

Parks Flora and Fauna can be found in this directory, click on Parks and Wild Life and you can study the weather by clicking on Weather Bureau.

Look up the World Facts Book for Australia

2. Employment and Study Opportunities will be the foremost consideration:

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Recruiters increasingly use websites. Recruitment is also through print advertising & direct.

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There is increasing reliance by employers on Recruiting Agents. A directory of recruiting agents and labour hire companies can be found, click on RCSA.

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For information on schools and universities click on Studying in Australia.   

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It is important to have a well presented resume or curriculum vitae. Assistance can be obtained from professionals.

3. Where in Australia?

The next consideration will be where in Australia to settle. 99% of new settlers choose to live near relatives already arrived in Australia.

Australian has a federal system of government at the national level (Australian Government with a national capital) with specific powers allocated to it by eight sovereign states and territories (State and Territory Parliaments) which have their own parliaments in capital cities. Within the states there are local governments (councils, shires, municipalities). All three layers of government have elected representatives. 

For those making a choice the following links, merely "tasters", are provided by state capital in the following table. Each open up a wide range of further links for you to follow.

 

Government

Tourism

Newspaper 

City Search

 DIAC Guide

Sydney New South Wales

Melbourne Victoria

Brisbane Queensland

Adelaide South Australia

Perth Western Australia

Hobart Tasmania

Canberra Aust Capital Territory

Darwin Northern Territory

 

National Links are:

Australian Government      National Library    Australian Newspaper   Aust Financial Review     ABC News    SBS News

 

Hallmark Immigration seeks to ensure that you are not only selecting the right visa option and plotting the most efficient approach to making the visa application, it seeks to ensure that you and your family unit are preparing for settlement. Hallmark Immigration assists where possible with some guidance, specific to your circumstances, based on years of experience in Australia.

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