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Most hotels will have internet access available or there is usually an internet cafe close by.

** A fellow traveller once gave me a great tip, he said that the Irish pubs have free internet access across the world. There’s never usually a shortage of Irish pubs....

How to Call Australia from Overseas
First you dial the access code to make an international call.
In the US and Canada that is: 011
In the UK, Ireland, India, Germany that is: 00
In Japan that is: 010
• Then you dial the country code for Australia, which is 61

• Then you dial the area code for the Australian state you’ll be calling, which are listed below.
• Then you dial the individual phone number, which is usually (but not always) 8 digits. If the individual phone number begins with a 0 (zero) you’ll normally drop that digit and start with the next one.

• From the US: 01161 and then the Aussie number starting with Area Code. Example 01161 4 XXXX XXXX (Cell Phone)
• From the UK: 0061 4 XXXX XXXX
• From Ireland: 0061 4 XXXX XXXX
• From India: 0061 4 XXXX XXXX
• From Canada: 01161 4 XXXX XXXX
• From Germany: 0061 4 XXXX XXXX
• From Japan: 01061 4 XXXX XXXX
• From Other Locations: click Here
• To call from Australia to Overseas:


• To Dial a State Land Line: Replace the 4 in the above numbers with the appropriate area code number below. Example: to call Sydney from the US, dial 01161 2 XXXX XXXX.

Area codes for The   Australian States:     

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• South Australia (Adelaide): 8
• Northern Territory (Darwin): 8
• Western Australia (Perth): 8
• Queensland (Brisbane): 7
• Tasmania (Hobart) : 3
• New South Wales (Sydney): 2
• All Cell Phones: 4
• ACT (Canberra): 2
• Victoria (Melbourne): 3    


International Dialling Code / International Access Code / 
IDD Code (0011)

To dial overseas from Australia you will need to first dial the Australia IDD code which is 0011 followed with the overseas phone number including the country code. Fax calls require the 0015 IDD code. The table below lists the most commonly called countries.
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Country

Australia
United States of America
Canada
Italy
Austria
Belgium
China (PRC)

Code

+61
+1
+1
+39
+43
+32
+86

 Country

United Kingdom
New Zealand
Germany
France
Singapore
Netherlands
Vietnam

Code

+44
+64
+49
+33
+65
+31
+84

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