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Moving to Bunbury

A guide for healthcare professionals · Nine chapters

Western Australia’s largest regional city, two hours south of Perth, with a referral hospital, a university campus and three kinds of coastline inside the same city limits. This guide covers what is specific to Bunbury; everything national is explained once, elsewhere, and linked from here.

~75,000
Greater Bunbury
2 hrs
To Perth by road
3
Waterfronts in one city

The guide

9 local chapters8 shared · national

Local chapters are written for Bunbury. National chapters are the same wherever in Australia you land, so they live once in the master guide and appear here at their right reading position — you only read them once.

01Welcome to BunburyWA’s largest regional city in nine numbers, and six things nobody tells you until you have moved.Read → 02Why BunburyRegional clinical breadth two hours from Perth, three waterfronts, and what you give up.Read → 03Bunbury at a glanceThe shape of the city, the seasons, and how a place of 75,000 came to carry this much.Read → 04Healthcare in BunburyThe South West referral role, the private imaging picture, and what to ask before you sign.Read → 05Where clinicians liveWhich side of the water suits you, suburb by suburb, and the one decision to make first.Read → 06Getting aroundA fifteen-minute city, the road and rail links to Perth, and the car question answered.Read → 07Cost of livingWhat costs less than Perth, what costs the same, and the two things that cost more.Read → 08Renting in AustraliaApplications with no rental history, how bond is held, and your state’s rulebook.Shared · national 09Pay & conditionsHow pay is set in Australia, and the agreements behind the numbers.Shared · national 10Money, tax & bankingYour TFN, superannuation, the Medicare levy and what tax residency means.Shared · national 11Driving & licencesConverting your licence, your state’s deadline, and how CTP insurance works.Shared · national 12Food, the market & the everydayThe produce market people drive an hour for, and the shape of an ordinary week.Read → 13Margaret River, Ferguson Valley & the weekendWine country in thirty minutes, Margaret River in ninety, and trails an hour inland.Read → 14Schools & educationHow the school system works, and what to decide before you arrive.Shared · national 15Finding your feet & your peopleCommunity, faith and belonging.Shared · national 16Eligibility & registrationAhpra, your profession’s board, and the documents to start now.Shared · national 17Visas & the moveThe routes, what they mean for your family, and the timeline.Shared · national

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Who this is for
  • Internationally qualified clinicians weighing a move to the South West — from the UK, Ireland, South Africa, the UAE and beyond.
  • Our Australian work is currently concentrated in medical imaging, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and radiology. If your profession is not one of those yet, we will say so plainly rather than waste your time.
  • There is nothing in this guide asking you to register with us, and no visa advice. It is here because the decision deserves better information than a job advert.
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