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Meanwhile, in Australia...
While I held the belief that the U.S. leads the world in people attempting to sue for abstruse compensation claims, down under seems to have a shot here. Bloomberg: Sex-Related Injury Not Compensable, Australia Court Rules How do people come up with such ludicrous lawsuits?
WSO Catchup in Australia!
Fellow Australia Prospective and Already Successful Monkeys! I was reading about the WSO conference and thought it was a great idea and how bummed i was that i couldn't attend, because i was way across the other side of the world! Then as a result of a couple of posters who showed an interest, i...
Greetings from down under
Hi Everyone, I've been lurking on this site for quite a few months now, and decided it's time to finally get involved. My interest in banking goes back to when my father (a truck driver) read me the richest man in Babylon as a child. As I have grown up, I have always been interested in businesses,...
Australian WSOers
As a masters student in Melbourne hoping for a summer internship, just curious to how many other Australians are using Wall Street Oasis? specifically Melbourne
Updating my Business Wardrobe - Australia or Italy?
Next year I will be starting in a graduate role with an MBB . I will need to update my wardrobe (suits, shirts, shoes) and need to decide where I should shop. I currently live in Australia, however will be heading over to Europe towards the end of this year. I will be in Northern Italy for most of...
Just curious
saw on those BBs' website that they are willing to sponsor a work Visa for most developed regions, yet Australia is an exception. Any one knows the reason?
China Warns Australia - Choose Between us or the United States
It is rare in diplomatic circles for governments to speak bluntly, particularly in the Orient, where manners are highly prized. The exceptions to this rule are retired military officers, who are often able to voice sentiments too impolitic for other channels.
Japan, Turkey, Switzerland and Australia: which one to go short and which one to go long?
Hi WSO , I am sophomore student and we are debating in the trading group at my school about this trade. We plan to obtain exposure via ETFs and perhaps other indexes. If you were given a bunch of cash, which one would got long and which one would go short? Why? Japan, Turkey, Switzerland and...
Australia’s Expensive Solar Ambitions
Green activists, take note – for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity covering an area twice the size of Sydney in order to replace Australia’s indigenous inexpensive coal-fired power plants with...
Breaking into Perth IBD
I'm an ASO 1 with M&A experience in London (sadly not in mining) who is looking to break into the Perth market. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm a PR, but not Aussie. Most of the large banks present in Perth will only look at people with mining experience so I plan to approach boutiques...
Working holiday jobs related to banking in Australia?
I was wondering if anyone could help me with the question I have. Right now I'm in Australia with working holiday Visa, and it's been about a month. I did not come here to work/travel, but to volunteer. But now I've found out that the minimum wage here is super high and I need some money anyway,...
Need Advice...Which One?
Hey Everyone, I will be studying abroad in Australia coming this fall. I would like try an obtain an 'international' experience if i could. With that said I would like to graduate school with a job as an analyst at a top BB . I have had two previous M&A internships in the States focused on TMT . I...
From the outback to The Street
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to make this post, so I apologise in advance if I am mistaken in creating this thread here. My question concerns myself as an Australian who is a first-year undergraduate. I have lived in Australia my entire life, as have my family. I have no connections in...
Moving from Australia
This is my first post and I am wondering if anyone on this site has moved to either London or the US to pursue a career in finance. Currently I am studying at Melbourne University a bachelor of finance, which is rated as the best uni in Australia, however I really want to leave this country as after...
Banking Hours in Sydney?
Random BB IBD opportunity has come up in Sydney... worth investigating... Anyone have any insight into hours, culture, etc.?
Sydney, Australia
Heading there on Friday. I'll be there for 4 or 5 days and then heading to New Zealand for a week and a half. Any recommendations on things to do, places to go?
Australia’s Super Profits Tax on Resource Companies Leads to Immediate Fall-Out
Australia sent the major miners into a tailspin overnight. The Rudd government announced Sunday night that it will impose a new "resource super profits" tax on mining, oil and gas, geothermal and other resource extraction in the nation. Under the scheme, resource companies will pay a 40% tax on...
MBA in Australia?
Has anyone studied or thought about studying for an MBA in Australia? From Jordan to Australia, read why Reem Salman took the plunge and went to the country famed for Crocodile Dundee and BBQs to do her MBA at top university: Monash Business School...
BB IB Sales -> MBA -> MBB Associate
Hello here is the career i had in mind bb ib sales -> mba -> mbb associate -> industry few questions regarding this; a) is it even possible? how are sales exit ops? (main reason i don't want to do trading is because i don't want to still be a slave to the financial markets at 35 with a family and...
Submitting Resume to Australian IBs
Just a quick question guys, as most of you monkeys know, resumes in Australia often goes beyond the strict 1 page limit. Generally, Australian resumes would be 2-3 pages. Examples of oz resumes: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/careers/Expres… http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/careers/Expres…...
Final Round Macquarie NY
I have a final round with Macquarie Capital in New York. Has anyone interviewed there for final rounds? It seems like you interview with only 4 senior people. Has anyone gone through it/what's the process like/what are some of the questions asked. Thanks in advance
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