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The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade estimates that there are some 30,000 Australian citizens living in Italy. Many of them are naturalised Australians who migrated to Australia from Italy post World War II and then returned. Others are Australian-born Australians who have succumbed to the charms of Italy for one reason or another. Regardless of their reason for being there, Australia has a sizeable number of its diaspora in Italy. Before sending a question of any nature to the SCG, however, please read our general policy on responding to queries below.
SCG Contact in Italy
We presently have three SCG volunteers in Italy. In Rome, Robert Tuppini is a dual Australian/Italian citizen fluent in Italian. He's a Sydney boy, born and bred, and spent many years in Tasmania. He lived in Brescia and Verona before moving to Rome and has tertiary qualifications in education:
Robert Tuppini
Rome, ITALY
Mobile: +39 338 4767515
Skype contact: robychievo
E-mail: tuppini@southern-cross-group.org
Further north, we have volunteers in Turin, Milan and Florence. Julia Martin originally hails from Temora NSW, and has been in Turin since 1992. Before that she lived in the UK for a year. Her Italian husband is the reason she's still in Italy and the reason her Italian is so good! Julia works as a freelance translator, interpreter and English teacher and has recently completed a stint working for the Torino Winter Olympics 2006.
Julia Martin
Turin, ITALY
Telephone: + 39 011 67 36 81 (evenings)
(NB - don't leave out the 0 if calling from outside Italy. Italy is unlike
all other countries in this respect!)
E-mail: julia@southern-cross-group.org
In Florence we have Sarah Barker. Originally from Melbourne, Sarah is a clinical psychologist with NGO and human rights advocacy experience, who has flipped like a frittata between Melbourne and Florence since 1996, calling both cities home. She and her Tuscan chef husband have been living in Florence this time since 2004. Sarah freelances as a teacher and translator for the University of Florence and she and her husband have a business giving Tuscan cooking lessons and creating Tuscan feasts for visitors to Tuscany.
Dr Sarah Barker
Florence, ITALY
Telephone: +39 055 420 1948 (home)
E-mail: sarah@southern-cross-group.org
We receive many queries every day from Australians around the world. The flood of e-mails is now of such a volume that our volunteer committee is stretched to its limits. While we want to hear your thoughts and views, before you send us a message, please read the following. This will allow us to use our limited resources as effectively as possible, so that we can spend less time answering e-mails and more time developing policy submissions and doing other work of importance to the whole Australian expatriate community.
Requests to be put on the SCG E-Bulletin List
If you simply wish to be put on the SCG's free e-mail bulletin list, please sign yourself up directly rather than writing to us. This will ensure that you automatically receive updates on the progress of our various issues as events occur. Our e-mail list is powered by List Builder software and you can unsubscribe yourself at any time. We do not share your personal contact details with any other individual or organisation.
Requests for Advice on Citizenship, Immigration and Other Matters - Please Make a Donation
Quite a few questions people address to us by e-mail are already comprehensively answered on our website. Please use the search facility at the top of this page to search our whole website BEFORE you e-mail us. You should also check relevant government websites for information before you write to us.
We are receiving an increasing number of complicated queries from people wanting specific advice on their personal citizenship or immigration situation. Some of these queries can take one of our volunteers several hours to answer properly. Requests of this nature should really be addressed to a qualified immigration lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction, rather than to the SCG. While we aim to provide support to members of the Australian diaspora within the confines of our limited volunteer resources, we are not a free immigration and citizenship advice bureau. And it is disheartening to spend a great deal of time preparing responses to these queries when often the recipients even forget to thank us.
We do have a number of lawyers on our volunteer SCG Committee, qualified in various jurisdictions. Some of them have expertise in immigration and citizenship matters. If you send us a query which we judge will take more than 15 minutes to answer, we will e-mail you back and ask you to make a donation of a suggested amount to the Southern Cross Group before we provide you with an answer. You can make your donation using the Amazon Honor System. Your donation will help us pay for website hosting and the many other expenses we face in running the SCG. This is a small way that you can say thank you for the support we provide you with.
You can contact us using our general e-mail address or the e-mail address of the SCG Committee Member nearest you.
