[quote=KVReninem,Jan 29 2007, 04:07 PM]

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Added on January 29, 2007, 12:02 pm
No charges at Commonwealth Bank. You may have to declare your value when you purchase the bank draft in Malaysia cos government wants to control the outflow you know.
Surprise, surprise, I have not seen those high-tech cheque deposit machines in Aussie banks like we do here. Even the ATM card uses magnetic strips.

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yea tat is so true...in malaysia..we got cheque deposit machine...here cash deposit machine also dun have...

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I find the cheque deposit machine in Malaysua quite convenient for customers with the touch screen and stuff (the one I have seen is the alliance bank).

Over in Australia you can practically do all payments via the internet thats why not necessary to have those extra machines and stuff.

anyone can point me to any website that stated what cannot bring to airport??..i am on the process of packing now..want to bring some spices there but dunno whether it will be taken by the customs onot...jeez..

Here you go. Yucks what an ugly url.

http://www.daff.gov.au/content/publication...93E5D87CAB8AF20

hey guys any ideas what else to pack...will be leaving next week and i keep hearing ppl saying they are already busy packing packing packing...i mean so far i only plan to pack my clothes,toiletries, bit of stationaries, important docs, passport...something similar like what i've pack when i 1st came to KL for studies...is bringing food over important eg.maggie? anything to take note of that i may have missed out?

thanks for the replies

which part r u? not necessary for food...you prefer trying new food here...

brisbane

Don't bring any food, animal, plants. Australia customs discourage it. It is not worth all the trouble.

if i starve till death how...goin unsw...

lol instand noodles should be allowed provided they don't have eggs (I think, cant' remember)

Anyways, just curious if anyone here has experience with credits transfer to Universities like Melbourne and Monash cause I still haven't receive any offers from them..

huh which uni u r from?
my fren credit trasnfer to rmit and monash also got his offer liao

those who plan to bring food in, better save yourself from trouble...dont get into trouble...forget about food..once you are here..you will prefer eating the food here...variety of them

University of Newcastle, took the twinning program at Taylor's. WHen did your friend receive his offer?

if you really are in need of Maggi (the asian version not the crappy ones made in Fiji), head over to Yuen's in either Chinatown or Sunnybank

jeez, i will b going over by this weekend..my mom asks me to bring some bak kut teh packets, maggi, curry powder and dunno watelse..but from i heard from my frens, they said that as long as you do not bring over things that contain milk..that should not b a problem..but anyhow, i pack my food stuff into one bag..and declare it when reach to customs..if kena confisticated, guess there is nothing that i can do..just hope that they do not kick me out of aussie enuf d..:/

sometimes they saman u on the spot leh...

er, why do u guys have to bring everything over? cant u guys just get it from chinatown rather than go thru all the trouble of declaring and whatnots?

dont bother bringing any food that you need to declare. Everytime you reach the international airport, when you are about to go out the red customs line is always damn long.

to those try to bring food in ..avoid trouble la ~ those food..haihz..you comehere enjoy the aussie food...then when you go back then you will think again..most asian stuff now more easier to get then last time..

to all newbies going to australia, remmeber the customs are increasingly strict with food stuff so its best to limit the amount you bring you do not want everything to be dumped into the bin. Alternatively pray hard you get a lazy or nice custom officer. Write down all your food stuff in a paper and if you are really lucky you will not be checked at all. Happened to me when I arrived in sydney early this month.

i was going through the list of what ought to be declared, and i saw a section saying that used sportswear i.e shoes that you bring have to be declared as well to check for possibility of trapping contaminated soil on your shoe, this is the first time i came across such rule, just wondering does anyone here really do declare their shoes?