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[Odinson]

I hear the australian mining industry pays the plane ticket and housing for finnish mining workers..





I have a buddy whos thinking about moving to Australia... And in there he is gonna train the australians to use some piece of mining tech.

Probably only the most skilled and experienced ones.

I dont know.. He has less than 2 years of experience..





But its experience with some machine that the australians need.

[Anonymous]

I hear the australian mining industry pays the plane ticket and housing for finnish mining workers..





I have a buddy whos thinking about moving to Australia... And in there he is gonna train the australians to use some piece of mining tech.

Probably only the most skilled and experienced ones.

I dont know.. He has less than 2 years of experience..





But its experience with some machine that the australians need.

That may be enough.

[Odinson]

I hear the australian mining industry pays the plane ticket and housing for finnish mining workers..





I have a buddy whos thinking about moving to Australia... And in there he is gonna train the australians to use some piece of mining tech.

Probably only the most skilled and experienced ones.

I dont know.. He has less than 2 years of experience..





But its experience with some machine that the australians need.

That may be enough.

He said there are only like couple machines like that on the globe and the other one is in Peru.

[Bricktop]

First language is Finnish...then english.

Mistä päin oot kotosin?

lol... online translator?



To answer your question.. I was born in Viitasaari.



Moved to Australia with my parents in the early 70's when Australia was still paying for immigrants with a trade to come over and populate.

I didn't know Australia did that at one time.

Assisted migration. During the 1950's, the Australian government realised that it had a massive skill shortage that was severely limiting development, particularly in housing and infrastructure.



So it implemented a program of attracting migrants by subsidising their fare...adults paid 10 pounds each, children free. The government set up employment agencies in its consulates throughout Europe, and employers could flag the trades they required with these agencies, who would then match applicants with existing positions, so that migrants had a guaranteed job on arrival.



Migrants had to stay in the country for 2 years. If they chose to return to their homeland they had to repay the Australian Government the full cost of their passage.



The government initiated a program of advertising throughout Europe, enticing people to a young and "lucky" country.



Hindsight has judged this advertising program as extremely disingenuous in some respects. Many migrants did return to their homeland after discovering Australia was far from the sundrenched Utopia it was portrayed to be. It was decades behind the rest of the developed first world, and lived off trade with England and British corporations who paid no tax.



However, enough migrants stayed to turn the tide of decline...particularly British production workers, Italian and Greek builders, German winemakers, and many other European nationalities familiar with working in large civil engineering projects.



Australia also managed to avoid many of the difficulties multiculturalism created...ghettos, nationally based conflicts, divided communties and poor integration. I suspect this is because it was so young and immature as a country, that there was a sense that no-one one group dominated any other and unity would indeed create a new and better country than the one they left.



So everyone pulled together. Because much of the population were working class, Australia avoided the class structures of old Europe and became egalitarian to a fault. Even now, if you put on an air of superiority, you are quickly reminded that although you may be a world class neurosurgeon, you are no better than the driver of your taxi...so show some respect.



For many years, Australia was a very junior member of the Western democratic faction and tended to cower before other, larger and stronger nations. These days, not so much.

Thank you ambassador Bricktop.

 

Forums are meant to educate...

[Anonymous]

First language is Finnish...then english.

Mistä päin oot kotosin?

lol... online translator?



To answer your question.. I was born in Viitasaari.



Moved to Australia with my parents in the early 70's when Australia was still paying for immigrants with a trade to come over and populate.

I didn't know Australia did that at one time.

Assisted migration. During the 1950's, the Australian government realised that it had a massive skill shortage that was severely limiting development, particularly in housing and infrastructure.



So it implemented a program of attracting migrants by subsidising their fare...adults paid 10 pounds each, children free. The government set up employment agencies in its consulates throughout Europe, and employers could flag the trades they required with these agencies, who would then match applicants with existing positions, so that migrants had a guaranteed job on arrival.



Migrants had to stay in the country for 2 years. If they chose to return to their homeland they had to repay the Australian Government the full cost of their passage.



The government initiated a program of advertising throughout Europe, enticing people to a young and "lucky" country.



Hindsight has judged this advertising program as extremely disingenuous in some respects. Many migrants did return to their homeland after discovering Australia was far from the sundrenched Utopia it was portrayed to be. It was decades behind the rest of the developed first world, and lived off trade with England and British corporations who paid no tax.



However, enough migrants stayed to turn the tide of decline...particularly British production workers, Italian and Greek builders, German winemakers, and many other European nationalities familiar with working in large civil engineering projects.



Australia also managed to avoid many of the difficulties multiculturalism created...ghettos, nationally based conflicts, divided communties and poor integration. I suspect this is because it was so young and immature as a country, that there was a sense that no-one one group dominated any other and unity would indeed create a new and better country than the one they left.



So everyone pulled together. Because much of the population were working class, Australia avoided the class structures of old Europe and became egalitarian to a fault. Even now, if you put on an air of superiority, you are quickly reminded that although you may be a world class neurosurgeon, you are no better than the driver of your taxi...so show some respect.



For many years, Australia was a very junior member of the Western democratic faction and tended to cower before other, larger and stronger nations. These days, not so much.

Thank you ambassador Bricktop.

 

Forums are meant to educate...

And  you never fail to indoctrinate, I mean educate.

[Bricktop]

I INCULCATE. Show some gratitude.

[feral]

First language is Finnish...then english.

Mistä päin oot kotosin?

lol... online translator?



To answer your question.. I was born in Viitasaari.



Moved to Australia with my parents in the early 70's when Australia was still paying for immigrants with a trade to come over and populate.

Höpö höpö en mie mitää translaattoria tarvi..



Mie oon tän palstan tunnetuin lappilainen.







I´m a finn living in lapland, Finland..





Can you still speak finnish like a finnish person or do you have an accent?

I speak finn like a person with an Australian accent lol



Seriously tho, yes i speak, read and write it.



Question for you. What is it like living in Santa's neck of the woods?



My daughter missed the Northern Lights a couple of years ago by 2hours...she was very disappointed as that was the sole reason why she travelled from here, and across Europe to do..

[Anonymous]

First language is Finnish...then english.

Mistä päin oot kotosin?

lol... online translator?



To answer your question.. I was born in Viitasaari.



Moved to Australia with my parents in the early 70's when Australia was still paying for immigrants with a trade to come over and populate.

Höpö höpö en mie mitää translaattoria tarvi..



Mie oon tän palstan tunnetuin lappilainen.







I´m a finn living in lapland, Finland..





Can you still speak finnish like a finnish person or do you have an accent?

I speak finn like a person with an Australian accent lol



Seriously tho, yes i speak, read and write it.



Question for you. What is it like living in Santa's neck of the woods?



My daughter missed the Northern Lights a couple of years ago by 2hours...she was very disappointed as that was the sole reason why she travelled from here, and across Europe to do..

I can understand that..



I have been told that when I speak Mandarin and Taiwanese when I'm back in Taiwan, I sound like an overseas Taiwanese.

[feral]

lol exactly!

[caskur]

I speak finn like a person with an Australian accent lol



..

And Finns speak English with a Finnish accent...





 :001_rolleyes:

[caskur]

Bricktop was a 10 lbs Pom...   ac_lmfao





I'm the only real Aussie here and I make up 1/3 of the population... everyone else are blow ins.







The state of WA is made up of 45% of people whose origin was the UK...







Having said all that,... Oz is full, now go home!~





 :JC_howdy:

[caskur]

During WW1 Australia lost equivalent to (note I say equivalent to) 500,000 American men from our population at the time. (whatever percentage that is)





They went to help the UK and Europe against the Germans. They volunteered to help. They weren't conscripted.





Were they stupid?... of course they were stupid. Then came more heavy losses in WW2







Bricktop failed to add that factor to why Oz needed migration at the time.



And we had the White Australia Policy. Only good looking white people could immigrate... and yes, that was a fact.... if you were coloured or ugly, they wouldn't let you in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

[caskur]

Australia was a new developing continent.. it needed roads... try developing a continent with only horse and carts.

[Anonymous]

During WW1 Australia lost equivalent to (note I say equivalent to) 500,000 American men from our population at the time. (whatever percentage that is)





They went to help the UK and Europe against the Germans. They volunteered to help. They weren't conscripted.





Were they stupid?... of course they were stupid. Then came more heavy losses in WW2







Bricktop failed to add that factor to why Oz needed migration at the time.



And we had the White Australia Policy. Only good looking white people could immigrate... and yes, that was a fact.... if you were coloured or ugly, they wouldn't let you in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

I'll have to read that link later.

[Odinson]

A french person said "bonjour" to me..





I answered "bonjour" back..





He then said "oh you speak french"..





And I said "no"...