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Saturday mornings. In country DIRECTORY
towns, the general store often
doubles as the post office. Most Telephone Directories
newsagents also sell stamps. Australia Post Customer
Standard domestic mail takes Service Centre
two to three business days to Tel 13 13 18.
be delivered. Priority stamps are
available at an extra cost to White Pages
speed delivery. Post boxes for ∑ whitepages.com.au
standard mail are red and can Yellow Pages
be found outside post offices, in ∑ yellowpages.com.au
and outside shopping centres,
Standard and express postboxes on main streets and scattered Mobile Phones
throughout suburban streets.
and carries a stiff fine. Many Express Post, for which you Optus
places in remote Australia are need to buy the special yellow ∑ optus.com.au
not on the mobile network. and white envelopes sold in Telstra
post offices, guarantees faster, ∑ telstra.com
next-day, delivery to capital
Internet Virgin
cities and major regional areas
Free Wi-Fi is available in within Australia. Postboxes for ∑ virginmobile.com.au
numerous hotspots in major Express Post are yellow. Post Vodafone
cities, and many councils provide offices also offer international ∑ vodafone.com.au
free Wi-Fi in local shopping areas courier services.
and council-run sport and leisure
facilities such as swimming Newspapers and radio broadcaster which
centres. Most hotels, cafés, provides excellent news and
libraries, shopping centres, Australia has two national current affairs coverage,
tourist attractions and transport newspapers, The Australian, a children’s programmes and
hubs also provide free access. well-respected broadsheet with high-quality drama. In addition,
Some require a password; excellent national and overseas the corporation has its own
others just invite you to join news coverage, and the local and national AM and FM
the network. As Wi-Fi is widely Australian Financial radio stations which
available and smartphones Re Re offer a wide range of
Review, which largely view, which largely view
provide easy ability to connect reports on business and services, including
to mobile data and online financial matters. Each news, arts commen-
services, there are fewer Internet state capital also has its tary, modern and
cafés. Those that remain tend own daily newspaper. classical music,
to be aimed at gamers, with All newspapers have indigenous
access to a range of pre- online editions, some Logo for the programmes and a
installed games for an hourly free, some subscription. ABC network nationwide station for
rate. Using Wi-Fi-enabled mobile Thenewdaily.com.au and news. the under 30s called Triple J. SBS
devices to make voice and com.au are free, while smh.com. (Special Broad-casting Service)
video calls with apps such as au and theage.com.au offer 30 is Australia’s other state-run
Skype, FaceTime and WhatsApp free articles per month. television and radio network
avoids traditional call costs. and caters to Australia’s many
cultures with foreign language
Television and Radio
Postal Services The Australian Broadcasting programmes. There are also
three free-to-view commercial
Post offices are open 9am–5pm Corporation (ABC) is a state- television networks – 7, 9 and
weekdays and some are open on owned nationwide television 10 – that offer drama, reality
shows, sports, news, game
shows and other light
entertainment on multiple
digital channels. Foxtel – and
Austar in rural areas – offers
the usual wide array of pay
television channels.
In all state capitals there is
an enormous variety of local
FM and AM radio stations.
Details of current programming
are available on the
A selection of newspapers available in Australia networks’ websites.