Watch This I moved to Australia after saving up for six months after years of loving Home and Away By Jessica Martin Published 7th Aug 2024, 14:36 BST Comment Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now This video More videos Watch Colleen Deere, who moved to Australia when she was 26 because she loved Home and Away, discuss raising a family abroad. A woman has revealed how she moved to Australia after years of loving Home and Away - having saved up for just six months. Colleen Deere, 35, from Carlow in Ireland , had a job in a bank in Kildare but after spending six months saving up, she flew to Perth in June 2015 initially with a working holiday visa and says she fell in love with the place straight away.
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She met her now-fiancee, Tom McParland, 39, from Merseyside, while they were both working on a vineyard and living in the same hostel in Margaret River . The pair have been together for eight years and currently live in a 750 Australian dollars-a-week two-bedroom apartment in Sydney with their one-year-old son, Cove. Colleen Deere with son Cove.
| Colleen Deere / SWNS Colleen has received sponsorship from her employers and said she was “over the moon” when they told her, because “it meant I had a way to stay in Australia”. Colleen and Tom earned Australian citizenship in December 2023 and Cove automatically received it after being born in the country. Colleen, a team leader at a recruitment agency, said: “I was always interested in Australia - I think watching a lot of Home and Away episodes had something to do with it.
We just absolutely love it here - the weather , the opportunities, the fact you meet people from all walks of life. It’s just amazing.” Continue Reading Related topics: Australia Ireland Kildare Perth Margaret River Weather Comment Comment Guidelines National World encourages reader discussion on our stories.
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