G'day!!

I'm Helen, from Yorkshire (England), and I am currently sat in my kitchen at my house in a town in Queensland wondering how the hell all this happenned!
6 months ago I was working extremely hard doing an IT consultancy/support job at SITS Ltd, and my partner Andy was unemployed as he had been made redundant after working as an electrician in a coal mine at Riccall for 9 years - which to be fair he did for the money rather than for the love of it!
One day late January after enquiring about a job as an electrician in Leeds, the recruitment consultant on the phone asked what experience Andy had - he said unfortunately he had no experience of wiring houses because he had worked underground all his life. The guy on the other end of the phone said excitedly - 'Hey, I'll put you through to my boss, we might have a job for you'. The boss asked Andy whether he fancied working in Australia, to which Andy laughed and said we had always wanted to travel to that side of the world. Boss said send your CV and a letter in ASAP as they are coming over from the coal mines in Queensland, Australia to interview next week. That night we put together a great CV and cover letter, and sent it off by e-mail to await our fate. We probably thought we had about a 1% chance of this ever coming off! After an interview and then an hour phone interview with Australia it gradually dawned on us that this wasn't just a dream anymore it was going to be reality.... On these pages you should see the story unfold of how coal mining changed our lives...!!


...because all Australians wear these!!