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You'll love every piece of Victoria - Visit Victoria website

Backpacker - Travel stuff

Get the facts about travelling in Melbourne and wider Victoria. Use our tips to plan your trip or smooth the way while you're here. Our essential information covers everything from visas and when to travel, to the price of a pint.

Getting Here, Melbourne Victoria

Planes, trains, buses and boats head to Melbourne. It's easy to get to and well connected.

Getting here
When to Travel to Melbourne, Australia

Victoria's true colours shine in every season: summer, autumn, winter and spring.

When to travel
Visa

Secure a warm welcome to Australia with tips on visas, customs and banned goods.

Visas and customs
Insurance

Have you got it covered? Spend a little on travel insurance, to save a lot on the unexpected.

Insurance
Money

Learn all you need to know about currency, banks, and budgets in Victoria, Australia.

Money and banks
Working Holiday Visa, Victoria, Australia

There's always work for willing hands in Victoria – from cafe jobs to fruit picking or nursing.

Work
Study in Victoria, photo: Adam Bruzzone

Get more out of life with a short course, degree, postgrad study or an exchange year in Oz.

Study
Info

Get travel tips from a local or help with your onward bookings at an information centre.

Visitor information
Post

Find out how easy it is to get online, find public phones or get to a post office in Victoria.

Post, phones and web
Media in Victoria, Australia

Newsapers, mags, online news, tv and radio keep you in touch and up-to-date on the road.

Media
Health & Wellness

All you need to know about Australia's public health care system, health and safety.

Health and wellbeing
Disability

With support services, accessible facilities and adapted streetscapes, Victoria's for everyone.

Travellers with disabilities
Gay & Lesbian Tourism, Melbourne

The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender scene is vibrant in Melbourne.

Queer Victoria
Fireworks Melbourne

Plan around public holidays, business hours, bank and post office opening times.

Holidays
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Mungo National Park

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Ian Potter Centre NGV

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Melbourne bar

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