Air Travel
Maps
Media
-
Google in Australia,
Yahoo in A&NZ,
Web Wombat
- Newspapers: The Sydney Morning Herald
and the Australian
- ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corp -
and their
streaming media,
and SBS
- Commercial free-to-air TV:
7,
9,
10
- Community TV: TVS 3
- Cable TV:
Foxtel
and
Optus
- Channel NSW (Channel 45)
NSW government channel
- A
TV guide,
another,
another (works with TiVo),
and another,
and a list of
radio stations
- Telephone:
- Lookup:
White Pages,
Yellow Pages,
Pink Pages,
Sensis,
- Information:
Phonechoice,
imobile,
- wired:
Primus,
Optus,
Telstra,
... ?
- unwired (= mobile = cell phone): ?
Vodaphone,
3,
Orange,
dodo,
- VoIP: ?
- Phone cards seem to have the best rates for international calls.
See your local newsagents
or try CardCall.
Shop around. Check the connection fees.
- International call prefix: 0011, and 0018 for half-hour blocks
- Internet access:
info on ISPs
- This page
Housing
- The UNSW
housing service
has listings, and also information about tenancy agreements, etc.
The
A to Z pages on
housing and
accomodation
list some housing possibilities, including residential colleges.
- Flatmates
- Last-minute accommodation
Wotif and
Cheaper than Hotels
- A
rent vs. buy calculator from the NYT - be sure to fix advanced settings.
- Information
about buying a property.
- Property listings:
- Mortgage brokers,
beware their motivations:
Cannex
seems to be well-considered and
lists rates of most major banks (this list is soon out-of-date; access through their home page), as does
another website.
Some
loan calculators.
If your lender is covered, disputes up to $100,000 can be pursued with the
Credit Ombudsman
after you have tried resolving them with the lender.
- Incentives for first home owners
(federal) and some support for stamp duty from
NSW.
- RPData has suburb profiles
and sells reports with more information for buyers.
HomePriceGuide
shows recent sales and also sells reports to buyers.
-
NSW Dept of Lands
online services
-
Hints on
house inspections,
and
tradesmen,
Building inspectors:
Home & Investment Property Services were thorough.
Others:
ArchiCentre,
NSW PrePurchase,
Diamond Inspections ??? ,
David Hall,
Info on
sub-floor ventilation,
and more.
- Heritage Listing:
Search
for heritage listing.
Care
of heritage-listed housing.
An
inspection schedule.
- Utilities
Health Insurance
Finance
- CPA Australia
and the
Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Aust Taxation Office
- Banks on campus: ANZ, Commonwealth, UniCom Credit Union,
and where they are.
Other banks have branches in nearby (walking distance) Kingsford and/or Randwick.
- Banks:
NAB,
Commonwealth,
ANZ,
Westpac,
St. George,
UniCom,
Citibank,
ING Direct,
etc
-
RateCity
provides comparisons of credit cards, loans, bank accounts
- UniSuper
is the superannuation fund for UNSW and the default fund for NICTA.
NICTA employees can choose
a different fund.
iThe
Superannuation Complaints Tribunal.
- Life Insurance:
a broker,
another,
find an insurance broker
When things go wrong: the
Financial Industries Complaints Service
and the
Financial Ombudsman Service.
The national body for brokers is
NIBA.
- ASIC and their
consumer website
Miscellaneous
If you have comments or suggestions for improvement for this page,
contact
Michael Maher at NICTA/CSE.
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