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OK, so that could nearly halve the costs if you are paying tax at 45%.

I hope for your sake that you are right, but judge it in two year's time rather than now.

I agree that you should give balance - as you have done. If anyone asked me about moving to WA right now, I would be advising them to be very cautious indeed. I know of at least one large company who have a recruitment freeze pending the election.

He isn't complaining about his visa, it's about the school fees being imposed with little notice. I think you are wrong to call him stupid.

Where in the UK are you based? Most of our work is within a 50 mile radius of London?

Of course there will, but after 4 months of looking and advertising in both WA and internationally, they had decided I was the best candidate...no one is indispensable though!

Chris, if that's the case, you would be better off in the UK. Most say that you need to be earning 2.5 times UK earnings due to the high cost of living in Perth. The sparks employed by my company here in the UK, earn a lot more than £20k!!

I would feel the same in your position. As a senior manager with 30 years experience, 15 of which with the same employer, they will just have to manage without me!!

Perhaps the poster meant 45% tax?

Just make sure you check out the jobs situation before you get too far down the road...

Agree, not easy and wont be possible for some, but as you say it is possible for others. I made the point as the poster was saying his wife was 52 and if she is earning enough, MAY end up OK, if that's what they are hoping for. If not earning at that level, then you might as well forget it...

Sorry to hear...

[h=2]Age exemptions[/h]On 25 June 2013 exemptions for age were expanded with a view to creating greater flexibility to applicants who meet the specified criteria for exemption. Applicants must be less than 50 years of age or exempt. Exemptions are now available to applicants who are either: nominated as a senior academic by a university in Australia nominated as a scientist, researcher or technical specialist by an Australian government scientific agency, including State and Territory government scientific agencies nominated as a Minister of Religion by a religious institution applying through the Temporary Residence Transition stream, who have been working for their nominating employer as the holder of a subclass 457 visa for the last four years and whose earnings were at least equivalent to the Fair Work Australia High Income Threshold* for each year over that period nominated as a medical practitioner (ANZSCO Minor Group 253) applying through the Temporary Residence Transition stream: who have been working for their nominating employer as the holder of a subclass 457 visa for at least the four years immediately before applying and whose nominated position is located in regional Australia who have been working for their nominating employer as the holder of a Subclass 422 visa before becoming a holder of a Subclass 457 visa for the prescribed period of two years in the four years immediately before applying and whose nominated position is located in regional Australia. [*]for the Direct Entry Stream: New Zealand citizens and non-New Zealand members of the family unit of New Zealand citizens: who hold Subclass 444 or 461 visas who have been working for their nominating employer in their nominated occupation for at least two years (excluding any periods of unpaid leave) in the last three years immediately before making their visa application; or [*]nominated as a medical practitioner (ANZSCO Minor Group 253): who have been working for their nominating employer as the holder of a Subclass 422 visa for at least the four years immediately before applying and whose nominated position is located in regional Australia who have been working for their nominating employer as the holder of a Subclass 422 visa before becoming a holder of a Subclass 457 visa in the four years immediately before applying and whose nominated position is located in regional Australia. * The current Fair Work Australia High Income Threshold is AUD 129 300, as at 1 July 2013.

Clearly they don't want people any more!

Not true, 4 years on a 457 can give PR for over 50. http://www.immi.gov.au/skills/skillselect/index/checklists/186-applicant-checklist.pdf