The Immigrant's Guide to Living in Australia: 7th Edition - 2025/2026 Further Revised, Improved and Updated

Australia welcomes new migrants and businesses. Australia is a highly organised country, equipped to assist new migrants to settle and to support overseas businesses wishing to relocate.

The Immigrant's Guide to Living in Australia, 7th Edition, 2025 - 2026, has been revised, improved, and updated to provide the complete 'how to make it' in Australia. Before taking the huge step of migration, you need to know what to look for and where to find it.

• This book answers your questions and provides you with the following valuable tips:
• What do I take with me on the plane and who will meet me at the airport?
• What do New Zealanders coming to Australia need to know?
• What should I look out for when renting a home or an apartment?
• How expensive is it to rent a house or apartment in Melbourne, Sydney or Perth?
• What are real estate prices in Australia?
• How do I go about buying my first home and what traps should I avoid?
• What are the salary structures in Australia for jobs in demand?
• How do I go about finding a job?
• Until finding a job, will I receive unemployment benefits?
• Will I have to undergo military service in Australia?
• How does the Australian taxation system operate?
• How does the banking system work, and how do I get an introduction to a bank?
• What childcare facilities are there if both parents work?
• What is the cost of education in Australia?
• Can I send my child to a private school if I have the means?
• With the high cost of medical care, is a national health scheme available for migrants?
• How to buy a franchised business and the traps to be avoided.
• What is the Australian attitude to household pets?

All this and much more, including the most up-to-date statistics, are covered in this new, handy book.

Hymie Zawatzky understands what it means to be an immigrant - to leave one's homeland and embark on a journey to an unknown destination. He and his wife Joan arrived in Australia from South Africa in 1979 and settled in Melbourne. He is the son of immigrant parents who were forced to leave Europe in the 1920s for South Africa.As a qualified and experienced chartered accountant (FCPA) he was able to establish himself in Australia. Later he moved on to start a consulting company specialising in the retail and property industry.The process of immigration and assisting new migrants is one of his special interests. This led him to serve on the steering committee of the Ethnic Council of Victoria and to establish a new ethnic radio station in Victoria. Presently nearly every ethnic group broadcast on radio.He is the author of Australia the Immigrant's Guide to Retail, Retail Survival in Tough Time and The Retailers' Guide to Lease Negotiation and Administration and The Australian Handbook Post Covid, all of which are available for review on his web site www.placeofbooks.com.His practical and theoretical understanding of Australian finance, his own experience in immigrating, plus a great deal of research, has given him an ideal background to writing this book.