3 reasons we may lose Australians once borders open. Commentators and media have speculated that COVID could be both a ‘brain gain’ and a ‘brain drain’ for Australia. Neither side has the stats yet to take the win as the debate is playing out real time but where the argument for ‘gains’ was initially streaking […]
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I wish I knew how it would be to be free.” Nina Simone
This was the song that Michael Ellis used to describe his year of lockdown in the UK and his decision (and subsequent adventure) to get back home after 19 years living in London.
Relax returned expats, questioning your decision to return home is just part of the process. If I had a dollar for every time, I had a returning expat say to me ‘What have I done?’, I would be running Insync from my private jet. I know when I get hit with this question, I am
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For Change Manager Sarah, coming home from ten years in London was a change she thought she could handle.
Nicole had a great career in Australia as a well-regarded journalist and newsreader with Sky News when her hotelier husband James was offered a new role, first in Hong Kong and then in the ancient Chinese city of Xi’an.
Is local recruitment doing enough to keep Australian expats here once borders open again? Last week the government announced a suite of budget measures designed to ‘attract global talent’ and to set Australia up for the future. These measures, recommended by the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Global Business and Talent Attraction, Peter Verwer include
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Michael Waite, his wife Whitney and three kids were on an 18-month round-the-world adventure and in Australia for the Southern Hemisphere chapter of their trip to visit family when COVID and family tragedy struck.
For six years prior to annus horribilis, Bridget John had been living a globally nomadic life between home bases in France, Morocco and Australia.
But will more remote working create new opportunities for aspiring expats? COVID has brought thousands of digital nomads back home. Ironically, the pandemic has never made it so easy to manage a career remotely. So, what’s next for the future of Australia’s globe-trotting digital nomads? Prior to the pandemic, Bridget John had spent six years
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How we need to support the returning Aussie repatriate during COVID Hearing the Australian Prime Minister say that Australia is in no hurry to open international borders will no doubt be another dagger in the heart of more than 36,000 Australians still trying to get home plus those with family abroad. Around 400,000 Australians have
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