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Living in Australia

Beginning a Life in Australia

Important: Contacting Centrelink
From 1 July 2009, the Centrelink appointments and opening hours telephone line as listed in the Beginning a Life in Australia booklets will no longer be in use. Information about how to contact Centrelink by telephone is available from the Centrelink website.
See: Centrelink – Telephone us

The Beginning a Life in Australia booklets welcome newly-arrived migrants and humanitarian entrants to Australia. They provide useful national, state/territory and local settlement information for migrants, humanitarian entrants, their sponsors and service providers. This information is available to download in English and 37 community languages for each state and territory.
See: Beginning a Life in Australia – English version

Booklets in other languages

Translated versions of Beginning a Life in Australia for each state and territory are available to download from the table below.

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