High-flying Australian expats are clamouring to return home as the Covid pandemic remains a danger in much of the world.
Before Covid-19 struck, white-collar professionals worked aboard in places including London, New York and Singapore, where income tax rates are half that of Australia.
Now many of them are struggling to get back to the relative safety of Australia, with high-achieving expats fiercely competing for the local jobs they used to do overseas.
Investment banker Catherine McCormack has swapped a high-flying career in New York to be a corporate boss in Australia, while cryptocurrency trading CEO Caroline Bowler has swapped Singapore for Melbourne.
Ben Robertson, an Adelaide-raised legal team leader based in Singapore, said Australian expat lawyers were searching for work as finance compliance lawyers, with some finding success.




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Ben Robertson, an Adelaide-raised legal team leader based in Singapore, said Australian expat lawyers were searching for work as finance compliance lawyers, with some finding success

Nick Deligiannis, the managing director of recruitment company Hays in Australia and New Zealand, said the Covid pandemic had encouraged high-income professionals to return home.





Nick Deligiannis, the managing director of recruitment company Hays in Australia and New Zealand, said the Covid pandemic had encouraged high-income professionals to return home

The 42-year-old Irish citizen moved to Australia for love, adopting Collingwood as her home team and playing women's AFL.
But with Australians banned from travelling overseas for a holiday, it has been 'at least two years' since she has seen her parents who live at Longford, north-west of Dublin.
'It's very difficult. I'm one of those people who are looking to get back to see my parents,' she said.
'I've got siblings around the world and none of us all live in the same country so for us, it's about that homing pigeon response to get back to Ireland to see our family and be together.'
Jarden Securities managing director Catherine McCormack, 39, last year moved back to Australia from New York where she was a managing director with investment bank Goldman Sachs.
She doesn't regret leaving the Big Apple as the city battles gun crime problems.
'The FOMO isn't as bad as knowing that New York now isn't the New York I moved to or enjoyed for 10 years,' she told Bloomberg.





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