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Time to act on Australians abroad : Comments
By Elena Douglas, published 8/3/2005Elena Douglas explains how the Australian Commonwealth Government should use our expatriate community.
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Posted by Ian, Monday, 14 March 2005 2:34:18 PM
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Australians and New Zealanders now share the right to travel to each other’s countries virtually without restriction. An Australian living in New Zealand is really no more of an ex-pat than a Queenslander living in Perth. If that system was extended to re-include Canadians and Britons, someone born in Melbourne could study or work in Auckland, Vancouver or Edinburgh (and vice-versa) with a minimum of red tape, and it would greatly improve the flow of skills and expertise for all four countries. We all have essentially the same culture anyway, so it would be a win-win-win-win situation.