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Moving to Geelong

A guide for healthcare professionals · Nine chapters

Victoria’s second city, an hour from Melbourne, with the only tertiary hospital in the state based outside the capital and the Great Ocean Road starting at its edge. This guide covers what is specific to Geelong; everything national is explained once, elsewhere, and linked from here.

~270,000
Greater Geelong
1 hr
To Melbourne by train
25 min
To the Great Ocean Road

The guide

9 local chapters8 shared · national

Local chapters are written for Geelong. 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 GeelongVictoria’s second city in nine numbers, and six things nobody tells you until you have moved.Read → 02Why GeelongTertiary clinical reach an hour from Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road on your doorstep, and what you give up.Read → 03Geelong at a glanceThe shape of the city, the seasons, and how a wool port became a knowledge city.Read → 04Healthcare in GeelongThe only tertiary hospital outside Melbourne, the private sector, and what to ask before you sign.Read → 05Where clinicians liveInner city, growth corridor or the Bellarine, and the one decision to make first.Read → 06Getting aroundThe train to Melbourne, the freeway, and whether you really need a car.Read → 07Cost of livingWhat costs less than Melbourne, 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, Pako & the everydayPakington Street, the waterfront, and the shape of an ordinary week.Read → 13The Great Ocean Road, the Bellarine & the weekendBells Beach in 25 minutes, the Bellarine in 40, the Twelve Apostles in a day.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 regional Victoria — 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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Moving to Australia
The master guide: visas, registration, Medicare, tax, schools, renting, driving.
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The capital, and a comparison if you are weighing the two.
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Victoria
The state brief — scale, distances and where the opportunities sit.
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