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International Student Guide | Sydney and New South Wales | 2020 South Wales and | New Guide Sydney International Student International Student Guide 2020 FREE Sydney and New South Wales A guide by local experts ☀ CONNECTWITH Summer events JANUARY AUSTRALIA DAY CARSS JANUARY 26 BUSH PARK FESTIVAL CARWAR AVE, CARSS PARK FEBRUARY Study NSW coordinates a wide range of programs FEBRUARY - MARCH and support services for international students to help you make the most of your time in Sydney and NSW CINEMA MARCH - APRIL Visit our international student welcome desk Access free legal advice from International at Sydney International Airport Student Legal Service NSW Contact Service NSW for free information Find out about our NSW International and referral advice Student Awards Explore work experience and work DECEMBER integrated learning opportunities through Visit our website www.study.sydney to NSW Global Scope and our airport welcome find out more and keep in touch SUNDAY desk work integrated learning program Magic Christmas 1 DECEMBER of 4PM at to CARSS BUSH PARK Stay connected www.study.sydney CARSS BUSH PARK 9PM Carwar Ave, Carss Park StudySydney StudySydney StudyNSW For more information on our events visit www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au Summer events.indd 1 12/11/2019 1:58:27 PM OUR TEAM Welcome EDITORIAL Contents Sydney is known as the ‘city of villages’, Content Manager - with no two suburbs the same. You can Gemma Kaczerepa be sipping on a delicious flat white at a Writer - ACCOMMODATION 18 cafe in Sydney’s Inner West and, just 20 Kate Neilson Setting up minutes later, you could be breathing in COMMUNICATION 28 Everything you need to the fresh, salty air at one of the many Production Manager & know to get your new MONEY & BANKING 32 beaches scattered along the iconic Designer - Samuel Trezise coastline. Just as varied as the suburbs student life organised EMPLOYMENT 38 PHOTOGRAPHY and start enjoying the are the people who occupy them; the Samuel Trezise experience of being in a STUDYING 48 city is a cultural melting pot complete Discover NSW new city. HEALTH & SAFETY 54 with diverse communities, great food and events. There’s no doubt you’ll find a BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT pocket of Sydney to call home. Advertising - TRANSPORT 66 Bela Mitchell Areas SYDNEY’S CBD 74 Managing Director - Learn about the different James Martin THE INNER SOUTH 78 areas that make Sydney and NSW an ideal place INNER WEST 82 Marketing Coordinator - Portia Postlethwaite to live and study. INNER EAST 86 ENQUIRIES AND FEEDBACK WESTERN SUBURBS 90 For all enquiries please REGIONAL AREAS 94 contact [email protected] If you have any feedback for Activities EVENTS 104 Insider Guides, we’d love to hear it. Please head to: Looking for something LIVE MUSIC 106 www.insiderguides.com.au/ to do on the weekend? CINEMAS 107 feedback Want some new ways to FUN ACTIVITIES 110 make friends or explore Co-branding partner: the city? Find out the CAMPING 111 best activities in and around Sydney. All information presented is true and correct to the best of our knowledge. Current businesses and services mentioned were operating at the time of publication. We KEY CONTACTS AND SERVICES apologise if any have moved, closed or their Need some help while you are in Sydney? Find the services have altered in the interim. contact details of the various support services available. P.112 4 WWW.STUDY.SYDNEY INSIDERGUIDES.COM.AU 5 Welcome to Sydney and New South Wales On behalf of the New South Wales (NSW) Government, I warmly welcome you to the premier state of Australia. As the Minister responsible for supporting our international students, I am proud of everything NSW has to offer. NSW is the leading destination for study in Australia, welcoming over 270,000 international students from 160 countries each year to study across the state. The NSW Government has set up Study NSW, a government agency dedicated to supporting and enriching your student experience. Our aim is to ensure that NSW feels like a home away from home and that you can make the most of your experience here. Study NSW coordinates a wide range of initiatives to help you with living, studying, and working in NSW. For example, the agency funds the International Student Legal Service NSW, offering free legal advice to international students across the state. If you’re looking for practical experiences, Study NSW also provides work LOVE integrated learning opportunities through programs such as NSW Global Scope and our International Student Welcome Desk at Sydney Airport. Please make sure you visit www.study.sydney to find out more about Study NSW programs designed to help you. Study NSW initiatives complement the state’s world-class education sector. Wherever you study here, you learn from the best. Our universities, research organisations, vocational SYDNEY education and training institutions, including government-owned NSW Technical and Further Education (NSW TAFE), have a global reputation for excellence. We are also home to many of Australia’s leading private education and training providers, English language colleges and secondary schools. Become an Ambassador I wish you every success with your studies. I also encourage you to Would you like to: explore all that Sydney and our – meet new people? wonderful state has to offer, – share local knowledge? with a view to becoming the next – ensure thousands of visitors generation of ambassadors for NSW. enjoy our beautiful city? Deputy Premier John Barilaro, We’re looking for friendly people to greet visitors and share insights about our city. Minister for Regional New South Wales, Come along and join the team. Training provided. Industry and Trade Register at: cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/volunteer INSIDERGUIDES.COM.AU 7 15555 Insider Guide brief for print ad DE2.indd 1 15/11/19 10:03 am “ In Sydney, I love having the opportunity to interact with different cultures and the geniality of Sydneysiders! Chintan, India “ Studying at Macquarie University Quick facts Iconic landmarks The Coathanger Famous beaches It took 14 years to The Sydney Harbour Sydney has over 100 construct the Opera Bridge is affectionately beaches and swimming What I love most about House. Ten thousand known as ‘The spots. Sydney’s iconic construction workers Coathanger’ because of Bondi Beach is the living in Sydney is its helped to build it and its shape. Despite its fun centrepiece of the popular natural and historical it cost around $102 nickname, it should be show Bondi Rescue, “ beauty. Not only can you million – $95 million over taken seriously – it’s the while Palm Beach in the budget. world’s widest long-span Northern Beaches is where visit iconic landmarks bridge and tallest steel Aussie soap opera Home such as the Opera House arch bridge! and Away is filmed. and experience the Multicultural city First nations people Something fishy? city life, but you can As of 2016, nearly 43 Aboriginal Sydney-siders Sydney is home to the also enjoy the beautiful per cent of Sydney’s are known as the ‘Gadigal second-largest and most scenery of its beaches “ population was born people of the Eora nation’. varied fish market in the overseas. The majority Eora means ‘here’ or ‘from world, coming in behind and green parks – all in are from China, followed this place’ and Gadigal Tokyo. Based in Pyrmont, the same place! by England, India, New (also spelt Cadigal or it trades 13,500 tonnes Zealand, Vietnam, the Caddiegal) is one of many of seafood each year. Giorgia, Italy Philippines and Lebanon. ‘clans’ that inhabit the Eora nation. Studying at UTS 8 WWW.STUDY.SYDNEY INSIDERGUIDES.COM.AU 9 Must-do in Sydney There are so many fun things to do in Sydney, but here are a few you can’t leave the city without doing. 1. 2. Say hello to the Harbour Cockatoo Island The Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney For 100 years, this former convict Opera House and Luna Park should be island in Sydney’s harbour was off-limits your first port of call. You can soak up to the public. Now, it’s a UNESCO- the magic of all three at once by taking protected landmark where visitors can a ride on the ferry from Circular Quay join historic tours, take a picnic, attend (we recommend doing it at night – it’s events or even camp overnight. magic). 3. 4. Get some salt on your skin Go bush In summer, Sydney’s beaches are the Just an hour out of Sydney, the Blue hottest spots to visit (by that we mean Mountains offers some reprieve from both popular and actually hot, so make the hustle and bustle of the city with sure you wear sunscreen and a hat). plenty of hikes and lookouts to explore. 5. 6. Understand Wander through the Australia’s roots markets Learn about Australia’s Aboriginal Spend the weekend scouring the culture, land and food by booking into various markets that pop up in Sydney’s a Guringai Aboriginal Tour of Ku-ring- suburbs, selling second-hand goods, gai Chase National Park. boutique items, art and great food. 10 WWW.STUDY.SYDNEY INSIDERGUIDES.COM.AU 11 Improving your English If you’d like to continue improving your English during your time in Australia, there are a few tools and resources that can help. SPEAKING READING & LISTENING WHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE TO Join a conversation group. There Read in English every day. This HELP ME IMPROVE MY ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS? are plenty of conversation groups includes websites, online news on Meetup.com, as well as at local outlets, newspapers, magazines libraries and community centres. and books. TITLE LINK WHAT IS IT? Find a friend who also wants to Listen to English-language music A platform full of English language improve their English and only and podcasts, watch English- English Central www.englishcentral.com videos that progressively build your chat to them in English - including language films, television shows comprehension.