Working and Living Australia

If you're planning on moving to Australia, this essential book not only tells you where to start, but guides you through every step. Whether you're heading for Sydney, Melbourne or Perth, it helps you fit in fast, with invaluable background on lifestyle, politics and media, and tips on the hot topics of the moment. All you need to know about living in Australia and finding work is outlined in reassuring detail, from obtaining visas and permits to tax and employment law, renting or buying a home, starting a business and finding schools. Engaging, readable and packed with case studies and expert advice, this is the only guide you need.
What you will find inside:

" expert guidance on tackling red tape
" everyday life explained - phones, internet, TV, banking, shopping, health, education, and home utilities
" how to find work and keep it, or start your own business, with useful contacts and bags of ideas
" complete profiles of the regions, and an outline of climates
" 16 pages of color photographs
" scores of anecdotes and personal stories - learn from the challenges and experience of others.

With Cadogan's new Working & Living: Australia available, the move to this striking country will go as smoothly as possible. Everything readers need to know about living and working in Australia is covered in this invaluable guide, from gaining visas and work permits to Internet services available. Detailed advice helps them put their dream of moving to Australia into practice, with details on how to buy a house, get a job, and find schools. Case studies of people who have already made the move Down Under are dotted throughout the text, giving them a personal insight into how life will change, and fascinating facts about Australia provide small, quirky snapshots of this spectacular country.

Jane Egginton is an award-winning travel writer and photographer who has been writing and editing guide books for more than fifteen years. A member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, she produces glossy, highly illustrated coffee-table books and comprehensive, fact-filled publications, as well as destination articles for international and national magazines and newspapers. She has lived and worked in Australia and dreams of swapping her small North London flat for a four bedroom house by the beach in Sydney.