I have researched it, first off I travel on a regular US passport, just like a tourist, I am allowed 3 months down there, I am not allowed typically to work, I have skills concerning concrete batching facilities plus I have been driving concrete mixers for over 15 years, and I am a diesel mechanic.
I am 54. My choice is to get a sponsor, a business to sponsor me to become a skilled immigrant, my CDL is observed there, of course things tend to be opposite and more so than most believe, like the “agitator” mixer trucks have to rotate the drums in the opposite direction.
After I get a sponsor by my efforts of just approaching a business and selling myself then that also opens the door for me to move any personal belongings.
Mining is booming, unemployment is only 6.7 percent.
And they don’t exactly welcome Moslems as much as people think, first off Islam considers Oz not the same as the US, to them America is the country that could wipe them off the face of the earth, America is the country that could if pushed hard enough perform very drastic cleansing efforts against Islam.
So yes Oz is a bit more tolerant but then again the population density is totally different, 20 million there against 300 million in the US.
Wow, you sound like you have a marvelous furutre ahead of you!
Thanks,
Take care,
Ed