I'm puzzled about the relevance of this topic. And why the subject of the
original email did not state 'Off topic -- totally'. And in fact why
Birding-Aus was considered an appropriate forum at all.
'Birding' is the operative word for this forum.
On 10 November 2016 at 14:34, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
> Most American birds that migrate do so from north to south America and
> return. Avoiding arrival by boat, they would need very good flying skills
> to
> fly to Australia. But honestly if any USA citizens want to migrate to
> Australia, all the information is on the Australian government immigration
> site https://www.border.gov.au/. Sure it can be entertaining to raise
> irrelevant issues and suggestion can arise but to be useful, members of
> this
> chat line are hardly the first point of call on this issue. Obvious options
> are to choose to marry an Australian (many Asian women - and probably fewer
> of other demographics - are doing that) or be recruited for a job that we
> can't find a suitable Australian candidate for. Both are long, uncertain
> and
> expensive processes.
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> Philip
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf
> Of
> Denise Goodfellow
> Sent: Thursday, 10 November, 2016 10:31 AM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] American birders seeking to migrate to Australia
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> An American birder has asked what steps she should take to migrate to
> Australia. Do any Birding Aussers know?
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> Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
> PO Box 71
> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
> 043 8650 835
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> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
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> Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
> Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism Award,
> 2004.
> Liaison Officer, NT Field Naturalists’ Club
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> With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent
> becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.
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> On 10 Nov 2016, at 8:31 am, Chris Lloyd <> wrote:
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> > My suspicion is that the Glen's stream of conscious monologue, whatever
> its
> > intrinsic merits and pedantic linguistic failings, is now a relatively
> minor
> > concern. The worldwide rise of populist proto-Fascism, and the
> concomitant
> > decline of the organised left that usually checks this, will throw more
> > immediate and threatening challenges to birds than specific taxonomy. It
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> > worth wandering the corridors of Breitbart et al to get a flavour for the
> > emerging paradigm's view of the natural world. Suddenly Senator Roberts,
> > from Pauline Trump's Brown Shirts, looks mainstream. We may need to start
> > worrying at the genus or ordinal level under their policies. Ciao
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