Common sense of daily consumption necessary for immigrating to Australia

The minimum face value of a coin is 5C (cents), followed by 10C, 20C, 50C (maximum, polygon), 1 USD (gold, abbreviated as 1 knife, USD, similar to American knife), and 2 USD (gold, ratio 1 USD). )。

Paper money is made of plastic, which is not afraid of wrinkling, washing and wear resistance. The minimum face value is US$ 5, followed by US$ 65,438+00, US$ 20, US$ 50 and US$ 65,438+000, of which US$ 65,438+000 is rare and generally not provided by ATM.

Don't be surprised if you see the cashier at the counter weighing cash with an electronic scale, because this kind of plastic paper money has little wear and tear, and its weight is the same even after a long time.

Bank/bank card

The four major banks are Federal Bank, Westpac Bank, ANZ Bank and National Bank.

Bank cards can be used for daily consumption in Australia. You can apply for an ordinary debit card MasterCard without overdraft function, or you can apply for an overdraft credit card.

When you pay by bank card after consumption, you can withdraw cash. For example, if you buy something with 10 and then want to withdraw $50 in cash, you can talk to the shop assistant about withdrawing $50 in cash, or withdraw it from the self-service shopping machine, so as to avoid the trouble of finding an ATM to withdraw cash.

More and more bank card payment terminals support contactless password-free payment, which is called Paypass, and the limit is less than 100 yuan. For example, if you need to pay 30 yuan, you can brush the surface like a xx pass card on the domestic subway, and you can automatically deduct the money without entering a password.

A check/money order

You can apply for a personal check, yes, just like a check written by a foreigner in a TV movie. But on many occasions, personal checks are not accepted, and bank checks are needed.

In addition, Australia Post's draft is acceptable in some cases.

Whether it is a personal check or a bank check, two parallel lines will/should be drawn and the words "no circulation" should be written. This kind of check can only be used for bank transfer, and cash cannot be withdrawn, in case the check is lost and impersonated.

go shopping

The main shopping center is westerfield, which will include major businesses.

Shops usually close at 5 o'clock. Thursday night is shopping night, and the closing time will be delayed for everyone to shop.

For example, Australia's largest food supermarkets such as woolworths and coles.

Department stores such as david jones, Mayer, Target and K-mart.

Cheap shops such as Aldi in Germany.

Electronic multimedia classes, such as dick smith and JB Hi-Fi.

Dan Murphy's wine.

The self-service shopping machine here is very efficient, that is, after shopping, you can choose to use the machine to scan, package and pay for the goods without going through the manual counter, and you can also cash out through these machines.

oil price

The oil price in Australia is changing rapidly, keeping up with the international oil price. Take 9 1 (containing lead+10% ethanol) as an example. I have seen the lowest time 100 C (A $ 1) and the highest time 169 C (A $ 1.69).

Cooperative businessmen (Coles/Woolfs, etc. ) The corresponding gas station will give a discount if it purchases more than 30 yuan, depending on the oil price, sometimes 4c/ liter, sometimes 8c/ liter. If the ticket is at the bottom and the card is automatically recorded, the gas station will ask you if you have a fly buy/ daily reward card when collecting money.

Hydropower gas

You are free to choose different packages from different service providers. You can evaluate which set meal is suitable for you according to your actual usage.

consistent

Telstra provides the basic fixed telephone network in Australia, and then the major operators lease it to us to provide services.

You can choose to specify the flow or monthly subscription, the cheapest monthly subscription, the monthly rental for reinforcement, 60 yuan, and the maximum speed is 20Mb/s, depending on the distance from the switching center.

Most people can only choose ADSL, but compared with ADSL in China, the speed is much higher. Some areas can enjoy Australia's NBN optical fiber network in advance, starting from 100MB. In addition, Bigpond, a subsidiary of Telstra Australia, is also pushing its high-speed network to compete with NBN, which is also 100MB. The backbone network is optical fiber, and cables are used for home use.

Mobile phone providers mainly include Telstra, Vodafone, Optus and Virgin.

human resources

Australia's labor force is very expensive, such as hiring people to cut the back garden for dozens of dollars, cleaning up the dead leaves on the roof for hundreds of dollars, and cutting down a big tree for thousands of dollars.

So most people will learn to do all kinds of things, such as fixing small things, unblocking blocked toilets and making cakes.

Of course, there are some things that you can't do by yourself. You must ask someone with professional qualifications to do it, such as changing the gas valve.