According to property information supplier Australian Property Monitors’ latest report, the nation’s main cities had a double-digit increase in rental costs over the past 12 months.

In Canberra, the median weekly asking rents for houses rose from $390 in June last year to $410 in June this year. The 5 per cent rise means Canberra ties with Adelaide for the lowest rise in the country, but the median figure is among Australia’s highest.

For units, the median rose from $350 to $385, a 10 per cent rise.

Renters in Perth were hit with a 25 per cent rise. However, Canberra’s median is higher than Perth’s and is also higher than Darwin, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Hobart, whose medians range from $235 to $350.

Byron Bay, Australia

Where is Byron Bay?

Byron Bay is located on the northern coast of New South Wales, not far from the Queensland border. Cape Byron is the easternmost point of the Australian mainland, and it is almost at the midpoint of the eastern Australia coastline. Byron Bay is the name of the township that surrounds Cape Byron, which is a rocky headland renowned for its picturesque and iconic lighthouse.

What to do around Byron Bay?

One of the best things about Byron Bay is that it is so easy to rent a car and go off on a day trip to one of the many varied locations in the region. To the north and south are plenty of almost deserted beaches, such as Tallow Beach and Seven Mile Beach, and isolated coastal towns like Lennox Heads and Brunswick Heads. Inland, Mt Warning offers exhilarating hiking and camping opportunities, while exploring rural towns such as Bangalow, Lismore, Nimbin and The Channon, is a rewarding experience. There are a number of national parks in the area, such as Nightcap National Park, a world heritage site located on one side of Mt Warning famous for its waterfalls, flora, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies and hundreds of species of birds.

The selection of restaurants is amazing with a wide variety of international and local cuisine; seafood in particular is especially sumptuous and great value.

Circular Quay have viewed from the western end, Circular Quay in Sydney is situated around Sydney Cove, ounce has a shipping area, the goal now are the transport, leisure and recreational center.

It is made up of walkways, parks and restaurants. Enjoy the Aboriginal Didjeridu playing on the side walks.

The first A380 Airbus, delivered to Singapore Airlines

After 18 months of delay, the first A380 Airbus was delivered on October 15 to Singapore Airlines. Qualified by Airbus like “the most profitable plane in the world”, A380 accomplished its first commercial flight on October 25, 2007 by connecting Singapore to Sydney.

The majority of the places of this flight were sold with the biddings on eBay. They brought back 1,3 million dollars, the money having been transferred with caritative associations. There while waiting to be able to go up, we propose to you the virtual visit of the first specimen of A380!

Marvelous Melboursne, Paris of the antipodes!

In 1835 John Batman, in exploration in the area bought 240 000 hectares of ground to the aboriginals, a treaty “was signed” with the aboriginals which did not have any idea of the concept of property.

In 1840 10 000 Europeans lived on the site of Melbourne, but it is right after the independence of the colony of Victoria in 1851 of the supervision of the state of New South Wales, that the city taken an important essort during the longest gold rush in Australia of 1851 juqu’ at the end of 1880 it is the time when the city appellait “Marvelous Melbourne”.

he surge of the immigrants was ceaseless, English, Irish, American, Chinese… at that time one called Melbourne Paris of the antipodes. With the end of 1880, the city accomodates the World Fair, but it is soon the decline, a world financial ace due to the speculation stops Net the investments in Australia, it is the period of a severe economic recession.

In 1901, the colony of Victoria becomes a state and Melbourne the capital of Australia, until the creation of Canberra in 1927. In 1932, the economy of Australia sets out again thanks to the increase of the courses of wool and with the manufacturing sector. In 1956, the city receives the Olympic Games, the continuous flow of the immigrants, Melbourne is the 3 so much 3rd “Greek” city out of Greece Greek immigration was important. The city carries since 1937 the name of Lord Melbourne, English Prime Minister.

Melbourne : Flinders Station

The Yarra River

Centre Opera of Melbourne

The Sky Line Central Business Discrit

Melbourne today,

Melbourne is a city of more than 3 million inhabitants, located on Bay de Port Phillip, on Yarra River, it is a modern city, City covered with scrape-ciels and of the districts of architecture victorienne, Melbourne is famous for its trams green and gold and its coffees and restaurants in the absence of a symbol as the Opera and the bridge of Sydney. The city has many parks and gardens, it is a very alive and multi-cultural city.

Australian Road Signs

ABORIGINAL PAINTING

The Didgeridoo

Aboriginal sand painting Toogar

The Australian Outback:

Sunglasses on the nose, queer with flies with the hand, launch you to discover Australian Outback. Awaits you to perspire!

Stuart Hwy is the unavoidable way to circumvent for all those who want to see the Outback Australian (back-country). Called “The Track”, it extends its dusty bitumen through impressive desert areas, in the center of the country, to connect Port Augusta, in South Australia (SA), in Darwin, the extreme point of the Territory of North (NT).

Start this tour with Melbourne, whose innumerable restaurants and pubs will help you to constitute reserves in calories. Borrow Princes Hwy and devote yourself to the magic of Great Ocean Road. You in Adelaide, active artistic pole stop, to benefit from its softness of living. After having left Augusta Port, great spaces open with you: deep silence will be stopped only with the accesses of the mining city of Coober Pedy, capital of the opal.

After a stop in Uluru (Ayers Rock’n'roll) and visit the spectacular Watarrka (Kings Canyon) National Park, to the vertiginous canyons, direct you towards the oasis of Alice Springs, surrounded of the steep slopes of MacDonnell Ranges. Between “Alice” and Darwin, you will be able to meditate in front of astonishing Devil’ S Marbles, to descend some beers in Daly Waters Pub and to admire the landscapes, the wildlife and the cave paintings of the Aboriginals in Kakadu National Park, classified with the world inheritance.

Who follows Stuart Highway?

Stuart Highway in Port Augusta

At the time it on the Stuart Highway

East of the Stuart Highway

Port Augusta, South Australia

Port Augusta Pichi Richi Steam Train

What it is necessary to know to do in Australia

1. To call everyone “mate”, without distinction, even those who you do not know.
2. To check your case as regards visas carefully.
3. To know what your embassy/consulate in Australia can do for you in the any problem events.
4. To accept with serenity that the Australian ones are paid, on the occasion, to have your head.
5. To contract an insurance travels covering, if need be, the activities at the risk.
6. To envisage garde-robe reduced but adapted to the climatic variations.
7. To have an super-effective product counters the virulent flies and mosquitos.
8. To sew a pocket in front of your jeans, to accomodate the kangaroo mislaid in your hotel.
9. To keep in mind that the irony and the direction of Australian humour will hold surprises for you.

When To leave?

Honestly, every season proves favourable to visit an area or the other of Australia: when the weather is nice in North and the Center, the weather is cold in the South of the country; conversely, when North knows heat and moisture, the weather in the States of the South is done much more lenient.

Many festivals and spectacles general public also proceed throughout the year, of the gastronomical banquets and the great concerts of jazz or rock’n'roll until the artistic events and the sympathetic nerves regattas – the finales of football and the horse-races or nautical gathering the public at the end of the year.

Practical note: How to get information?

Embassy of Australia:
4, street Jean-Rey, 75724 Paris Cedex 15 Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 59 33 00.
Site: www.france.embassy.gov.au.

Formalities:

All visitors must be provided with a visa to enter to Australia. It is necessary to get the forms necessary in the Australian consulates and the travel agencies.

You can avail your electronic visa on line.

My favorite?
“Difficult to choose a route of predilection in such a rich country; however, my first circuit motorized in the center of Australia forms part of my best memories. I left Adélaïde and I moved towards north and Outback, going along to the passage of the saline wells before spending one night in a troglodytic dwelling.

More in north, I celebrated the sky of the desert close of the imposing silhouette of Uluru, painfully climbed the side of spectacular Kings Canyon then wiped a sandstorm by mislaying me on Mereenie Loop Road before joining the attractive mission of Hermannsburg. Lastly, I made knowledge with mysterious Alice, quickly abandoned for the remote throats of MacDonnell Western.”