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
-
TV show replays:
ABC iView,
Ch 10,
Ch 9's Fixplay,
Ch 7's Plus7,
SBS's player
- 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,
- Reverse lookup here
- 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lists rates of most major banks (this list is soon out-of-date; access through their home page), as does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.
-
Sea-level rise maps
- Heritage Listing:
Search
for heritage listing.
Care
of heritage-listed housing.
An
inspection schedule.
- Utilities
Health Insurance
- Universal Health Care - Medicare
outline,
more details
- When something goes wrong:
Private Health Insurance Ombudsman and
Admin Council,
the Insurance Ombudsman,
and
INsurance Broker Disputes Ltd.
These are
discussed
by Choice in an old article.
- Private Healthcare - the government's description
- Private health insurers:
HCF (13 1439),
NIB (13 1463),
MBF (13 1137),
Medibank Private (9349 8443)(East Gardens),
Manchester Unity (13 1372),
AHM (13 4246),
HBF (13 3423)
- NICTA corporate health insurance is through MBF, but is not as comprehensive as other plans.
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,
Bankwest,
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.
The
Superannuation Complaints Tribunal
and the
Australia Prudential Regulatory Authority.
- 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
- A
similar guide
by Felix Rauch Valenti
- Unit conversions for the metrically challenged
- The CIA
World Factbook entry for Australia
- Legal information from Law4u
and the
NSW Legal Aid Commission.
Legal help is available from
legal centres
such as the
Kingsford Legal Centre,
the Redfern Legal Centre
and the Inner City Legal Centre.
-
The NSW Law Society has support for
finding a lawyer
or mediator, and other information
- The
Community Justice Centres
provide mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods
for non-criminal matters. Call 1800 990 777.
- Staff at a
Local Court
can provide assistance but not representation in regard to local court matters.
There is a map with
locations of local courts.
Local courts also have a
Small Claims Division which deals with claims of less than $10,000.
- Australian Electoral Commission
and the
NSW one
- Government:
federal,
state,
and
local
The local councils:
Botany Bay,
Randwick,
Sydney,
Woollahra,
Waverley
- Australian
Immigration Department and
forms
- Trading Post
- Artbank - rent artworks
-
Choice magazine,
organ of the Australian Consumer Association,
has comparison and evaluation information on all kinds of consumer products
(subscription required).
-
.au domain names
-
Tourism guide
for RTCSA 2006
and ICAPS 2008 links to maps
with some city restaurants and pubs/bars.
-
Information about
bushfires
and other potentially dangerous incidents
If you have comments or suggestions for improvement for this page,
contact
Michael Maher at NICTA/CSE.
All information provided on a best-effort basis.
Links are short-cuts, not recommendations.
NICTA is funded by the Australian Government as represented by
the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and
the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence program.