If you can afford to go to Melbourne to study, I'm pretty sure a 5% increase, which prolly only translates to approx. 30c to 50c increase in fares won't hurt you much. And come on, your tuition fees increase on average by 10% every year, you don't whine on that and yet you are complaining on this?

For locals, a 5% increase is really insignificant with their concessions, so don't even bother going into that part.

Inefficiency is a different story. I was just referring to your point on being the poor unable to afford the 5% increase. Irregardless of its efficiency, if you really can't afford it, it will not make any difference with a price hike on whether it is efficient or not.

FYI, I live in Sydney and if you have been to Sydney, I'm sure you would have noticed that Sydney's public transport is not that much better either, and we do get a price hike in public transport on an almost annual basis as well.

I'm currently doing commerce in UNSW, so what do you wanna know about? Seriously speaking, no one here would be able to give you a really good insight unless that person has personally went to study in all three of the universities you mentioned. However, generally speaking these 3 unis can be viewed as equally good from the undergrad perspective. So you should really consider other factors such as location, living expenses, tuition fees (UniMelb has the highest fees among the Go8) etc.


I'm pretty sure he's talking about AUD, its close to impossible to survive on RM350 here in Sydney.

This post has been edited by jae: Dec 17 2008, 11:01 PM

Depends on your accommodation, for myself, if i were to survive with that amount, my weekly rental can not exceed $200/wk. I would say give yourself a bigger budget, say $1400 per month, that would be better.


You are welcome. Feel free to pm me if you have any questions.

I'm not too sure about ADFA, but COFA @ Paddington is the one for art courses. ADFA I believe is for those who are in the military if I am not mistaken.

For most of the mainstream courses like engineering, commerce etc, you will definitely be in Kensington campus unless you applied for ADFA which I doubt you did.

And lastly to Joshua, welcome to UNSW

This post has been edited by jae: Dec 24 2008, 10:06 PM

Why don't you try the Sydney-Melbourne-KL or Sydney-Gold Coast-KL route with Jetstar for domestic and AirAsia for international flight? A ticket from Sydney to Melbourne shouldn't cost you more than $100 one way. Alternatively, you can fly Jetstar to Darwin and then to Singapore from there, with the final connecting flight from Singapore to KL.

I personally have not really calculated how big is the difference between these methods and paying the full-fare for MAS, but one thing for sure is you will end up spending many more hours in total.