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It’s great to be back in Sweden! First things first; filmjölk and rye bread sandwiches in our backyard. Excellent!
Also, I’ve got a new Swedish mobile number; +46 (0) 768 502 796.
People enjoying the view from Stanwell Park, an hour south of Sydney.
Tomorrow will see me fly back to Sweden (via Bangkok and Helsinki), to spend almost 4 weeks there, visiting friends and family. I very much look forward to catching up with my Swedish friends (it is a bit over a year since I last went back).
Selling Swedish trinkets at the midsummer celebrations earlier today.
Earlier this afternoon, a handful of swimmers at the Bronte rock pool.
We took a bike ride across the harbor bridge earlier today. Here is one of the shots of the city skyline overlooking the boats in Lavender Bay.
Another shot from Surry Hills Festival, the weekend before last. A group of dancers impressed the crowds by belly-dancing while balancing swords on their heads.
On my way home from the delightful Surry Hills Festival earlier today, I found myself behind this lovely woman out walking her bird.
Walking down Crown Street in Surry Hills earlier today.
Some food photography earlier today.
I am experimenting with some stuff on the site, having wanted to do something new with liljeqvist.com for some time. Hang on while I play with some different designs and widgets.
“Bacon bones for soup” and “Virtually trans fat free pies” in idyllic Bulli, 70kms south of Sydney.
Earlier today at Stanwell Park, an hour south of Sydney.
Köttbullemackor and lussekatter being served at the Swedish Church in Sydney Christmas Bazaar yesterday.
Street party in Glebe earlier today. Hundreds of stalls and thousands of people out, enjoying live music, good food and people watching.
The last week was spent on New Zealand’s north island, where we visited Auckland, Rotorua and the Coromandel peninsula. And picked up our new permanent resident visa labels at the Australian consulate in Auckland. Expect more beach and landscape photography during the next few weeks. Above, french toast breakfast at the Driving Creek Cafe in Coromandel. A wonderful artsy and alternative cafe in the rainforest, just what one needs before flying back to Sydney.
Earlier today, wandering around the hot springs at Wai-O-Tapu, south of Rotorua on New Zealand’s north island.
Also from this weekend; this character was stuck in his wire cube at Bondi’s southern tip.
Another shot from this weekend’s Sculptures by the Sea exhibit at Bondi.
A snap from Tamarama beach earlier today. The annual Sculptures by the Sea arts exhibit is on this week, drawing a crowd of thousands to Bondi and Tamarama.
(If you are a Swedish expat in Australia, or Australian expat in Sweden, and find international taxation interesting, then read on.)
In 1981, Australia and Sweden signed a tax treaty. In Sweden, the tax treaty is identified as “Proposition 1981:1006 – Förordning om dubbelbeskattningsavtal mellan Sverige och Australien.” Unfortunately, the Swedish Tax Office web site does not list (as of October 2009) the full text of the agreement on its page listing Sweden’s different bilateral tax treaties.
I have come over the old print version of the treaty and scanned the two missing attachments as pdf files. If you want to read up on the treaty, you can download the missing attachments below:
SFS 1981:1006 Bilaga 1 (4Mb .pdf)
SFS 1981:1006 Bilaga 2 (1.5Mb .pdf)
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Summary in Swedish:
1981 kom Australien och Sverige överens om ett dubbelbeskattningsavtal, känt som proposition 1981:1006. Den detaljerade texten för detta avtal finns i skrivande stund inte tillgänglig på svenska Skatteverkets hemsida. Länkarna ovan leder till pdf-versioner av avtalets två bilagor, scannade från svensk författningssamling 1981.
Lisa and I were granted Australian permanent residency this week. Very happy! In a couple of weeks we will fly over to Auckland to visit my friend Tobias and get the new visa label in our passports. (Since we applied for the visa when overseas, we have to leave the country to get it – thus our trip to Auckland.)
The contrast between Australia and Sweden is quite striking.
In Sweden, fringe nationalist party Sweden Democrats have recently featured in the news campaigning on an anti-immigration platform and look set to win their first seat in the parliament in next year’s elections. Although Sweden’s official policy is not as silly as that, it is still quite difficult for non-refugee migrants from outside of the EU to move to Sweden.
In Australia, the government tries to attract the world’s well-educated young with special “Skilled Migrant” visas specially geared towards people in their thirties with uni degrees and unique skills.
I do not know much about foreign policy, but if I ran a country, I too would make it extra easy for young, educated people to move there. What a great strategy; old Europe pays for their education, then Australia gets them to relocate to the sun.
A new acquaintance made; apparently the ponds in Centennial Park house plenty of metre-long long-finned eels.
An excellent way to spend a Saturday afternoon; hanging out with Magnus and Michelle as they got married in Watsons Bay.
The view from our balcony this morning – the worst dust storm in 70 years hit Sydney today, pushing air pollution to 1500 times the normal rate. Reminded me of a red snow-storm of sorts.
This week’s beach shot brought to you by Shelley Beach, just south of Manly. Apparently the diving is great here, with many dive centres arranging dives just off the beach.
