If you’ve been wondering how to get an Australian mobile phone, it’s easy. Read on to find out how.
The great thing about Australian mobile phones is that you never pay to receive calls. You only pay to make calls.
Let’s look at the different carriers in Australia as well as their prepaid and post-paid offers.
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You will need to apply and be accepted by an Australian university before you can apply for your student visa.
Once you have your acceptance letter, here’s what you will need:
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The Blue Mountains are not really mountains, nor are they blue. So why the name? I guess in Australian terms, these are mountains, although they would be dwarfed by a serious mountain range. And the “blue” label comes from the fact that you can see a bluish tinge when you are far away from the mountains (I never have).
As the world’s best outdoor city – or one of them, anyway – Sydney is at its best in summer. Here are four ice-cold Sydney bars where you can truly enjoy the summer.
The Opera Bar is Sydney’s best open-air bar. It has excellent views of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. You can smell the salt of the harbour and watch ferries sail past. It’s an absolute pleasure drinking at the Opera Bar!
The drinks are not that cheap here, but the stupendous view and the excellent live bands more than make up for this. If I could only see one or two Sydney bars, I would put the Opera Bar on my list. Address: Sydney Opera House (Lower Concourse) Circular Quay.
This visa lets you work in Australia for up to 4 years.
The duration depends upon the needs of your employer in Australia.
The official name of this visa is the Temporary Business (Long Stay) – Standard Business Sponsorship (Subclass 457).
One of the great advantages of this visa is that you can bring “secondary applicants” with you.
This means is that your husband or your wife (or your same-sex partner) can work or study in Australia too.
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Jet boating on Sydney Harbour is an adrenalin rush in a picture postcard setting.
There’s nothing like doing a 360 degree spin in a boat right in front of the Sydney Opera House.
Lucky we were given long raincoats to wear. Our driver put our boat through 360 degree turns, long powerslides and a lot of wake jumping. To his credit, our driver gave us a hand signal each time he was about to pull a move!
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Sydney harbour explorer cruises will show you the best of the harbour in a single day. You can get on and off the boat at any stop.
Sydney Harbour explorer cruises generally have six stops: Taronga Zoo, Shark Island, Watson’s Bay, Luna Park, Darling Harbour and Circular Quay. There are great things to do at each stop.
Taronga Zoo has the best views in the world. It’s also an excellent zoo in its own right. Taronga Zoo is pretty high up, so you can see a lot of Sydney Harbour. You can also see a wide range of Australian and other animals in semi-natural enclosures. Look out for Taronga’s newest addition – a baby gorilla. Tickets are an extra $16 AUD on top of your Sydney Harbour explorer cruise ticket ($29 AUD).
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There is a nursing shortage in Sydney – the NSW Auditor General has predicted a shortage of up to 40,000 nurses Australia-wide by 2010. If you are applying for a registered nurse working visa, you will be processed before other types of working visa applications. We need you here!
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Tourist visas for Australia are necessary for citizens of every country in the world except for New Zealand.
Update: All European passport holders should read about the new eVisitor visa. Everyone else, you have two choices here. You can either get an Electronic Tourist Authority (ETA subclass 976) which is like an electronic visa, or you can get a regular tourist visa (subclass 676). The advantages and disadvantages of each are below.
You won’t receive a sticker in your passport – instead, your passport number will be registered with the Australian customs officials. It’s sort of like getting your name on the door at a private party.
Do you want to work in Australia while you’re travelling? Do you have a passport from the USA, Chile, Thailand or Turkey?
If you answered ‘yes’ to both questions, then this visa (the “Work and Holiday Visa for Australia (Subclass 462)”) is the visa for you.
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