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Beginning a Life in Australia

The Beginning a Life in Australia booklet welcomes newly-arrived migrants and humanitarian entrants to Australia. It provides 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.

These booklets are made available as PDF files. To read or print the booklets, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 5 or later, on your computer. More information is available on PDF files.
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English Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in English (1.2MB PDF file)
Albanian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Albanian (1.4MB PDF file)
Amharic Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Amharic (2.0MB PDF file)
Arabic Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Arabic (2.5MB PDF file)
Bosnian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Bosnian (1.4MB PDF file)
Burmese/
Myanmarese
Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Burmese (1.9MB PDF file)
Chinese (Simplified) Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Chinese Simplified (1.4MB PDF file)
Chinese (Traditional) Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Chinese Traditional (1.7MB PDF file)
Croatian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Croatian (1.4MB PDF file)
Dari Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Dari (3.2MB PDF file)
Dinka Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Dinka (2.1MB PDF file)
French Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in French (1.4MB PDF file)
German Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in German (1.2MB PDF file)
Greek Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Greek (1.4MB PDF file)
Hindi Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Hindi (2.1MB PDF file)
Indonesian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Indonesian (1.3MB PDF file)
Italian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Italian (1.3MB PDF file)
Japanese Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Japanese (1.5MB PDF file)
Karen Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Karen (1.9MB PDF file)
Khmer Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Khmer (2.4MB PDF file)
Kirundi Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Kirundi (1.4MB PDF file)
Korean Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Korean (1.3MB PDF file)
Macedonian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Macedonian (1.8MB PDF file)
Nepali Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Nepali (1.7MB PDF file)
Persian/Farsi Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Persian/Farsi (3.0MB PDF file)
Portuguese Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Portuguese (1.2MB PDF file)
Russian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Russian (1.5MB PDF file)
Serbian Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Serbian (1.3MB PDF file)
Sinhalese Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Sinhalese (2.3MB PDF file)
Somali Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Somali (1.7MB PDF file)
Spanish Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Spanish (1.6MB PDF file)
Swahili Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Swahili (1.1MB PDF file)
Tagalog Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Tagalog (1.2MB PDF file)
Tamil Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Tamil (1.3MB PDF file)
Thai Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Thai (1.4MB PDF file)
Tigrinya Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Tigrinya (1.9MB PDF file)
Turkish Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Turkish (1.8MB PDF file)
Vietnamese Beginning a Life in Australia booklet in Vietnamese (1.6MB PDF file)

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