Car Hire:

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Airport Transfers:
Taxis and Skybus are readily accessed from the airport to the City. A taxi trip takes about 30 minutes depending on the time of day and costs around $40.

Travel Visa Information:
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affair's INTERNET SITE: www.immi.gov.au/visitors/iecn.htm Available on DIMIA’s Internet website is a wealth of helpful information about Australian missions overseas, how to apply for visas and further information on ETAs, Customs clearance, Quarantine regulations, health issues, arrival and departure and more.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT PARTICIPANTS APPLY FOR THEIR VISAS WELL IN ADVANCE OF ANTICIPATED TRAVEL

For event participants, the right visa is a Business (Short Stay) visa, even if some tourism activities are planned for part of the stay in Australia. It is called a 456 visa if it is issued as a label into a passport (fee of equivalent of $A70 in local currency payable), or a 977 visa if it is issued electronically, i.e. no label (no fee payable). At post discretion, one or more visits each of up to 3 months can be made on the 456 visa within 12 months of its grant. The 977 visa allows a single visit only for up to 3 months within 12 months of grant. For ETA (electronic visa) Countries, the 977 ETA is available to people who hold passports belonging to: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan(a), UK(b), USA, The Vatican (a) Taiwan passport holders can be processed for an ETA only if resident in and applying in Taiwan. (b) UK passport holders whose nationality is British National (Overseas) can be processed for an ETA only if resident in and applying in Hong Kong SAR. For non-ETA countries, the 456 visa can be applied for at Australian missions overseas. There is an application form to fill in (Form 456, available from the website or any Australian mission) and a fee (currently $A70) payable when applying. The DIMII contacts within the website provides a list of all Australian missions overseas by country and by city. The information is regularly updated and includes: Information identifying the post where residents of each country should lodge applications for entry and where these applications are processed and decided. Street and postal addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers of each mission, the website name and Internet e-mail address for each visa office where applicable, and client counter and telephone hours. An outline of any special procedures or features relating to visa processing at each mission. For New Zealand Residence, because Australia has special visa arrangements in New Zealand, NZ passport holders will visaed on arrival in Australia and do NOT need to lodge a VISA application prior to the departure from NZ.

Delegates from non-ETA countries will need to substantiate the information they provide in their applications, and they can expect to come under a certain amount of scrutiny as a normal part of the visa assessment process. Their status as conference delegates alone is not a guarantee that they will get a visa.