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A podcast about Brits living in Australia by former UK radio newsreader turned podcaster, Anna Moran. See Britstralian's Privacy Policy for Privacy Information here: www.britstralian.com/legal DISCLAIMER: Sponsors are third-party organisations who pay BRITstralian® a fee to be mentioned on the podcast, which helps towards the costs of producing the podcast and associated services. BRITstralian® is not responsible for providing any goods or services advertised by our sponsors and holds no con ...
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Jessica Ollerenshaw is a university graduate from Rugeley in the West Midlands who shares her experiences whilst backpacking down under. The 23 year old took a trip to Australia on a 417 Working Holiday Maker Visa in 2022 after completing a Sports Management degree at Manchester Metropolitan University and struggling to afford her bills as a restau…
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Doctor Michael Mrozinski, an NHS-trained emergency services doctor, emigrated from Scotland to Australia in 2016 on a sponsorship visa after suffering from burnout. The TikTok famous medic who moved from Glasgow to Melbourne shares his experiences down under with his 400,000 followers. Dr Michael, who also has a huge following on Instagram, talks a…
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Kaye Priest, originally from Stourbridge, UK saw her salary almost triple after leaving her job as a sales manager in Torquay, Devon to move to Victoria, Australia. The mum-of-two was in her late thirties when she emigrated down under after being offered an enticing employment opportunity with long-lost relatives living there. However, Kaye’s plans…
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Carol Smith, originally from Dorset, UK, swapped her family home for a caravan after overcoming overcoming breast cancer and a double mastectomy. The 36-year old mum-of-two set off on an open-ended adventure from Bensville, New South Wales with her husband, Adam, and their sons, who were aged just 3 and 5 at the time of Carol's cancer diagnosis. Ca…
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Gavin Kippins, also known as 'Gavlahh' from Halstead, Essex emigrated to Brisbane in 2012. The happy-go-lucky chappy who cannot stand the smell of fish was nicknamed 'Fryer Gav' when he took a chance at opening a British fish and chip shop in Australia. Little did he know that this venture would later lead him to create A Bit of Britain, a bustling…
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Maz is a mum of three who relocated to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland from Kent, UK with her daughters and her husband in 2016. Since moving to Australia, the family have traded the comforts of their modern, suburban home close to the beach for a remarkable 10-acres of former farmland in the countryside. Find out how they navigate the challenges of…
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Natalie Jowett from Milton Keynes is embracing parenthood in a new country after she embarked on an adventure to Australia with her fiance and their 6 month old daughter in September 2022. The couple made the big move down under after Natalie's fiance was offered a job with sponsorhip in Perth, WA. Natalie shares invaluable insights on the realitie…
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Jordana Grace, aka 'That British Girl' on TikTok, has made news headlines with her "Things they should tell you before coming to Australia" series. Originally from Wiltshire, UK, Jordana now lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland where she shares her experiences of living in Australia with her 300,000 followers. Her videos cover various aspects of…
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Two Brits living in Bondi, coastal Sydney, co-founded a dating app exclusively for British and Irish expats living in Australia. Natalie Smith originally from Sussex, South East England and Isla Cameron from Elgin, Scotland were both single and in their early thirties when they identified a gap in the market for expats looking for love & friendship…
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Before moving to Australia, Nick Sheppard performed as a guitarist for the legendary British punk rock band, The Clash. He is now settled in Perth, Western Australia. Nick, who performed one of The Clash's most iconic songs, 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' on worldwide stages in front of thousands of people, emigrated down under with his wife and tw…
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Ken Sharpe emigrated from Bournemouth, UK to Kalgoorlie in regional Western Australia in 2010. He has moved more than 9,000 miles across the world from a coastal town in England to a dusty outback city in Australia, surrounded by gold mines and not much else. The HR advisor has become a bit of a local celebrity over the past 10 years, from making h…
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Jim Arrowsmith from Chorley in Lancashire arrived in Australia as a 20-year-old backpacker in 2006. After realising there was a huge gap in the Australian market for British foods, Jim and his mate Pete Tonge (real name) decided to make their own pork pies. The pair of British travellers set up a pork pie factory on a pig farm on the edge of the Au…
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Sarah Vesty from Somerset arrived in Australia on her own with a backpack and a six-month travel plan back in 2012. Eight years on, she is still in Australia but is now married and a mum to her two little girls, Olivia and Ella. Sarah talks about what it is like to raise children on the other side of the world from family. USEFUL LINKS ● Australian…
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**WARNING** This episode features details of a serious road accident and includes some graphic details. A 1,000 mile day trip along the edge of hot and dusty outback Western Australia turned into a disaster when Michael Pitt’s motorcycle hit a kangaroo. The father-of-three who emigrated to Australia from Devon with his wife and eldest child 15 year…
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‘Poms in Perth’ has 27,000 Facebook members and is one of the largest social media groups dedicated to Brits living in Australia. Russell Burder, who emigrated from Canvey Island, Essex as an offshore surveyor in 2006, originally set up the group to keep in touch with his friends. He explains how the group's membership has exploded and tells us wha…
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Ross Johnston is a secondary school teacher from Reading who migrated to Australia with his wife and two year old daughter in September 2020. Within three months of arriving they had bought their five-bedroom detached home with a swimming pool in Brisbane. In this episode Ross discusses salary, childcare, cost of living and finding a job. The Johns…
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Jennie Bardsley is a travel agent from Dukinfield, Greater Manchester who came to Australia in 1992. Within a year of arriving in Perth, Jennie set up her own travel agency called British Travel and is still in business today, almost thirty years later. Prior to the COVID19 pandemic, Jennie’s main customers were Aussies booking overseas trips and c…
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After seven years in Melbourne, nurse and mum-of-two Pamela Waugh decided to return home to Scotland with her husband to be closer to their family. In 2013 the couple from Dumbarton, near to Glasgow, sold up and emigrated to the other side of the world on working holiday visas. In September 2020 they moved back as dual British-Australian citizens. …
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More than ten years after they originally decided to move to Australia, British couple Steve and Dianne Hargreaves emigrated from Preston to Perth with their two children in 2018 and starred on the BBC’s Wanted Down Under TV show. They discuss why they came to Australia, how they got their visas, what it’s like behind the scenes filming for the sho…
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Hi, I’m Anna Moran. I’m a Britstralian from Leicester in the UK, now living in Perth in Western Australia. I came to Australia in May 2011. I was 26 and I came here on a one year working holiday visa. I initially had no intention of staying in Australia and planned to get back to London to continue with my journalism career. After seeing the opport…
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Britstralian - The Trailer Hi, I'm Anna Moran and you're listening to Britstralian. You may have heard me a very long time ago in England, delivering your local news, or giving you a traffic update on the M25. Well, now I'm back. But this time I'm in Australia. There's around a million Brits living down under, but my research shows that there are s…
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