Recent Content by Hamish26

plan is to live and work in sydney. I dont really understand the difference between medicare and private health insurance? in UK we have NHS which is provided to every tax payer and there is where I get my diabetic supplies. So i Aus do I need to have private health insurance? If I do- whats...

everyone, thank you so much it was useful. what i am going to do now is to assess all options here. I sent email to medicare, will send to Australian Unity. Appreciate all responses, will try to work my way from here

I fear it will not be cheap. When you get permanent residency you will have access to the local private health cover for what it is worth. The system in Australia is not great. Even with the maximum private health cover, which costs me almost AUS$5k I am still out of pocket on pretty much every...

Hi everybody, I am new here and I'd appreciate some support here regarding one subject. I am 26 years old British and coming to Aus on a temporary working visa for 6 months and after that will enroll on a permanent viza my gf will get from her company. I cant really find a sufficient support...