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Travel advice

Our travel advice provides up-to-date information about the risks you might face overseas, helping you to make well-informed decisions about whether, when and where to travel.

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Travel tips

Our travel tips cover topics such as travel insurance, hints on staying healthy overseas and many more. Our most important tips are included in our Top 10 Travel Tips.

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Travel checklist

Arranging a trip overseas can sometimes be overwhelming. Our printable international travel checklist will help guide your travel preparations. The checklist covers all three phases of your travel: before you go, while you're away and coming home.

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Through a network of offices in Australia and around the world the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade provides assistance to Australians overseas.

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