Does anybody know if there's any publicly available records that cover people who have emigrated to Australia in the last 5 years or less?
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No, not that I know of. Your best bet is the phone book:
whitepages.com.au - Search for an Australian Business, Government or Person
The only other possibility is burials and obituaries if you think they may have died.
There are some recent obituaries here, but mainly for NSW:
Ryerson Index
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Thanks Mary. This person is most definitely alive. Trouble is I don't know where in Australia they live. I've tried the phone book site but there are heaps of possibilities all over the country and with only an initial in the index that's too many to cope with. Maybe there will be another contact from the person and I can ask outright.
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The electoral rolls are available for viewing at the Electoral Office. However, I'm not sure if only the roll local to that area is available or all of them. Some people also can take their names off the electoral roll. They still have to vote, but it's a bit like having an unlisted number in the ohone directory.
If you have any idea of the area they lived in, try googling their name with the place on the .com.au site.
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Originally posted by Harrys mum View PostThe electoral rolls are available for viewing at the Electoral Office. However, I'm not sure if only the roll local to that area is available or all of them. Some people also can take their names off the electoral roll. They still have to vote, but it's a bit like having an unlisted number in the ohone directory.
If you have any idea of the area they lived in, try googling their name with the place on the .com.au site.
Will just have to wait and see if further contact is made!
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The public can acces the whole of Australia electoral roll at the Electoral Office. I did it last year, it only gives full name and address and electorate, I think. As Libby said, some people can be excluded from the public access roll (like if you're famous, or for security reasons). The Electoral Roll is not available for commerical purposes and I think you have to have a good reason to be excluded from the list.
If they have asked to be excluded from that, its likely that they also have a "silent" phone number and so not appear in the whitepages.
Such very recent records are not generally available to protect one's privacy, so I think the only likely trace is going to be a trace on the internet. I was surprised the other day just how many posts I had made to different websites/mailing lists etc regarding a person in my family tree !!.
If you would like me to go to the Electoral Office and look , it would only take ten minutes - its quite nearby, they don't ask questions about who or why - just pm the name.
DiDiane
Sydney Australia
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Thanks Di and Perth
I don't know if the person has become and Australian citizen or not and they don't have a middle name so there could be a lot of matches in the electoral roll. Thanks for the offer Di but I'd only be sending you on a wild goose chase.
As I said, I'll just have to hope the person makes contact again.
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You are right Perth Tiger, I had forgotten that. A large percentage of immigrants don't take Australian citizenship immediately, or even at all.
DiDiane
Sydney Australia
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