Tag: Australians in London

Every Australian in the UK has a Walkabout memory. Now, as the final closing day of iconic pub Shepherd's Bush Walkabout approaches, we want to create a memory bank to record the friendships formed and loves lost and found within its green and yellow walls. Share with your friends and ...

OUR LONDON | Each week an Aussie Times writer will bring you a top five list from their favourite neighbourhood. If all roads lead to Rome, then all Tube lines deliver you to Hammersmith. This week MICHAELA GRAY shows you what’s out there once you leave the Underground.

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OUR LONDON | Each week an Aussie Times writer will bring you a top five list from their favourite neighbourhood. This week GEORGIA DAWES explores the weird and wonderful world of Soho, and comes up with a delectable list of her top five favourites.

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Sarah Blasko has announced a new London show for 1 December 2013. Blasko will perform songs from her new album I Awake in an intimate show at the Islington Assembly Hall.

Australian expats in London can still enjoy the fun and frivolity of the race that stops a nation with the 2013 Corporate Traveller Melbourne Cup celebrations on Tuesday 5 November at Australia House.

Australian expats in the UK are set to be treated to a truly unique musical experience this October, as London’s all-Australian chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru perform a special tribute concert at Islington’s famous Union Chapel in October

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How can you save on what’s effectively your biggest monthly outlay when money’s tight? The easiest way to reduce your rent without moving to the suburbs is to share.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | With the UK now the biggest Islamic finance centre in Europe, and Australia looking to enhance its own credentials in this area, Australians in the UK should consider looking at developing skills in this growing sector.

OUR LONDON | Each week an Australian Times writer will bring you a top five list from their favourite neighbourhood. This week Australian Times Editor ALEX IVETT presents her hood — Newington Green, aka N5.

Advance’s annual search for the best and brightest Australians and Australian university alumni living abroad, including the UK, is now on. Nominate now for the 2014 Advance Global Australian Awards.

The Australia: Shifting Sands film program at the British Film Institute’s London Southbank centre this September explores the emergence of Indigenous filmmaking and the idea of 'landscape as character'.

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Last Thursday night the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith played host to a wealth of Australian and New Zealand literary talent at a special Literary BBQ event.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Make your vote count in the 2013 Federal Election by ensuring you correctly complete ballot papers for the House of Representatives and the Senate.

A wealth of Australian and New Zealand literary talent will be on show in London this August at the Australian and New Zealand Literary BBQ in Hammersmith. It is a showcase event for the ANZ Festival of Literature and Arts planned for May 2014 in London.

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | 17th of August marked the one year anniversary of our arrival in London. Half of our “tour of duty” is over and I can’t help but feel very sad.

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Australian chef Scott Hallsworth is set to achieve his dream of taking high-end Japanese flavours and making them accessible to all with his latest central London venture, Japanese izakaya 'Kurobuta'.

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AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The Australian Greens have launched their UK campaign this week in order to encourage Australian expats in London to vote Green in the imminent federal election. Former Greens Hobart City Councillor and campaign leader, Mat Hines, believes expats in London may be key to determining the ...

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INTERVIEW | Named Best Newcomer at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the world is now Luke McGregor's oyster. His awkward quest to find the woman who will be his pearl is bared in My Soulmate is Out of My League, on at Soho Theatre until 17 August.

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Acclaimed London-based Australian ballerina Jenna Roberts will take to the stage in Brisbane tomorrow night for her first performance on home soil.

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Summer is when London comes alive, and no more so than for the city’s singletons — coaxed from hibernation with the promise of fun, flirting and first dates.

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THE EXPAT FACTOR | This week we chat to musician TARA MINTON. Back in London after headlining the Camac Harp Festival in Geneva, we find out what ex-Melbourneite come Harpist/Pianist/Lyricist/Singer Tara Minton loves about London, misses about home and her plans for the future.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Is the current shenanigans in the Australian parliament an unhealthy system gone out of hand?

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | After the honeymoon period is over, it's time to decide what's a mere quirk, or an ultimate deal-breaker.

Tina, We Salute You in Dalston is the kind of café you would open for yourself, if you wanted to eat well, drink good coffee, and soak up the footpath sun for hours on end with your neighbourhood friends. Tina, Coffee Cult salutes you.

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MOVE TO AUSTRALIA | For Europeans, the allure of Oz means better work opportunities and a more balanced lifestyle. Cristina Neagu, a Romanian living in the UK, is planning on joining her British partner in Australia this year. She explains their decision to relocate.

Aussie band, Amity Affliction has just announced their headline tour, visiting eight locations across the UK including London Manchester, Birmingham and more.

The Sydney Children’s Choir will be performing in London on 19 and 20 June as part of their longest International tour to date.

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Siobhan Reddy is Studio Director of award-winning video games producers Media Molecule, creators of the LittleBigPlanet games franchise. Radio 4 Women’s Hour named her one of the UK’s 100 most influential women alongside the Queen and Home Secretary Theresa May.

Experience the London of the silver screen with a trip to Hampstead, where the food is always fresh, the coffee spot on and the cobbled alleyways teaming with people with movie-star good fortune.

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HONEYMOONING NOMAD | How much can you actually accomplish in a minute?

SURVIVING LONDON | Coaches to London’s various airports may seem like the cheaper option, but what they’ll cost in time and hassle might tip the scales in favour of the train.

Zinzan Brooke, Lewis Moody and Geordan Murphy are amongst some of the international rugby stars attending a gala dinner on 11 July in London to support an Australian quadriplegic and raise awareness of spinal injuries.

Jennifer Guerrini-Maraldi is an Australian art dealer specialising in contemporary abstract act from indigenous outback communities and owner of JGM Art Gallery in Battersea. She is a member of the Indigenous Art Code, an Australian Government initiative to ensure fair trade and ethical treatment of Aboriginal artists.

The monthly Kiwis in London social event has become a cornerstone event for New Zealanders living in London. This month they have invited their Australian friends along for a night of drinking, music and good times.

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ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Systems are a part of life and work. Being aware of the systems you are a part of can help you maximize your performance within it.