Bringing Your Nanny on a 457 Visa

[Pieter en Lindie]

Hallo Almal

Kan enige iemand my se of 'n mens jou nanny kan Aus toe neem met 'n 457 visa duer te se dat sy jou aupair is. Ek het 3 kinders en het haar nodig om te kan werk.

Verder wil ek weet of die skole steeds gratis is met die 457 Visa. Ek het gehoor dit is nie. Wat kos dit dan. My kind sal dan in die laerskool wees.

Baie dankie vir die hulp

Pieter en Lindie

[Queensland Girl]

sjoe Lindie

Dink nie daai een gaan werk nie.

Sover ek weet kan mens slegs familie bring.Ek het nog nooit gehoor dat mense staf kan bring nie,juis omdat hulle wil he jy moet vir iemand hier werk verskaf.

Ek weet Diplomatieke personeel mag huishoudelike staf bring, maar nie gewone mense nie.

[Bob]

Australia wants you . . . . and your kids, of course.

Australia doesn't really want au-pairs, gardeners, maids, etc.

You hire Australians to do that sort of work.

Of course, they can apply to migrate to Australia on their own, but we've got quite a few gardeners, etc. of our own looking for more work.

One of the chief things about this great country is that we have never imported "cheap labourers" to do our jobs for us.

If you want a nanny or a gardener, you pay Australian wages to get the job done. That means you pay a gardener enough to support himself and a family of up to three kids to live on . . . . . that's the Australian "standard" rate of pay.

Australians could have brought in millions of coolies from Asia (India, China, Vietnam, etc.) in its day to do all kinds of menial tasks for very low pay . . . . gardening, factory work, cleaning roads, cutting the sugar cane, etc. . . . but down the track, you have to accomodate these people over the years, and eventually you find your country taken over by people that you have brought in.

Your country ends up "belonging" to another group of people who may not share the same values and culture as your own and aren't as keen to see everyone earn a living wage and have a decent standard of living. . . . . just look at the conditions Chinese, Indian or other Asian workers work under.

Australians have jealously guarded their "Western" standard of living, allowing all Aussies to have a living wage, and don't like the idea of competing with foreigners in this country who would be willing to work for a bowl of rice a day!

Edited December 9, 2006 by Bob