the taxing system here is just pure craziness. you can be taxed as high as a tad below 50% (49.5% if memory serves) if you have an extremely high salary.

I think that applies to everywhere

Heh.. I am from UWA engineering... UWA and curtin are forever in a feud over their engineering programmes
there are arguments for and against both actually. I won't really go into that as only really know one side of the debate, the For UWA-Against Curtin side, need to wait for a For Curtin-Against UWA side to appear before can debate

what happens is that many malaysians, in particular chinese who want to have "dual citizenship" will normally do so using two names
Say Mr. Tan Ting Tong wants to be an aus citizen but doesnt want to lose his malaysian citizenship will just become Mr. Albert Tan in australia and Tan Ting Tong in Malaysia, leaves aus on an aus passport and enters malaysia on a malaysian passport and the other way. Unless you get into big trouble and noticed by the gov in malaysia, you should be fine.

Don't expect it to fall forever.. in fact expect the MYR to fall when the politicians' "Our economy is strong" argument begins to leak big time...

Be prepared to work hard for it, don't expect to be spoonfed (then again this applies to most aus unis)

And truth to be told, most of the Go8 Unis are much more theoretical based than practical based. So if you're not the kind to want to study a lot of theory, then I'll have to say you're gonna be in for a shock.

u can apply for temp accomodation during orientation at the colleges first then go to the agents to look for empty rooms, or around uni bill boards for ads.
best if u do it earlier than other competitors.