Michael Waite
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.
Bridget John
For six years prior to annus horribilis, Bridget John had been living a globally nomadic life between home bases in France, Morocco and Australia.
Pandemic grounds expats enjoying the digitally nomadic lifestyle
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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Expats count the mental health cost of coming ‘home’
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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“Nobody wants to hear about your weekends in Paris”
Why telling your repat story can be tough. Last week on Boomeranging I told my repatriation story of returning to Australia – ultimately the story that became the seeds of the Insync Network Group and the Boomeranging podcast. When I first arrived back in Australia, telling my story after seven years in London attracted two very
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Margot Andersen
Margot spent seven years living in London, six more than she thought. In that time, she travelled, worked as a teacher and then switched her career into management consulting in the education sector. When she was offered the next step up in her career, she decided to come home instead.
Can you be a ‘cured’ expat or do you dream of doing it again?
Adjusting to life overseas is difficult. Adjusting to life back at home is also difficult. While both rewarding experiences, significant energy and time is invested in both and neither adjustment is for people who crave their comfort zone. Jumping for the first time is easy – ignorance is often bliss. But what makes a person
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Repatriating Kids Need Networks Too!
With more than 400,000 Australians returning home in 2020 due to COVID – there has been a heightened media focus on the plight of Australians adapting to life back home personally and professionally. We can sometimes forget that many of these professionals are coming home with kids – some of whom may have Australian citizenship but
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Mandy Mirghashini
For Mandy, the decision to move to the Hague with her family was a case of taking an opportunity to walk in the shoes of the people she had spent her career advising.