Living in Melbourne, there are all kinds of emergencies: smoke alarm at home, need to call an ambulance, lock broken. Don`t panic. Here`s how to deal with these situations.
1. There`s a smoke alarm at home. What to do? In Australia, all roofed areas are non-smoking, and hotels are no exception, which is very different from domestic. If you smoke in your room, you can also cause smoke detectors to alarm. And once the alarm, it may cause a fire in the entire building, leading to the fire brigade out of the police.
You may or may not know that in Australia, false fire alarm is paid, which is essentially different from domestic. Up to $3,000! If it`s a real fire alarm, and it`s not man-made, it`s free.
Why can`t the Chinese afford to smoke when they cook at home? The key is to turn on the range smoke machine and not let the smoke run into the hallway to touch the corridor smoke alarm. Only the alarm fire brigade that touches the hallway will appear.
In case of a real fine, how can it be revoked or mitigated?
You need to get an application form from the fire department for the following reasons:
a. Smoke alarm failure (too sensitive);
b. If you are a tenant, have you not been clearly informed of fire safety regulations?
c. Do you have anyone there to prove that you didn`t intentionally touch the alarm?
d. Has your alarm been regularly maintained? If you are a tenant, the fine may fall on the landlord.
2. Is there a charge for an ambulance?
Australia`s national emergency service telephone number is 000. You can call this number to contact ambulances, fire brigades and emergency police.
But ambulance services are not provided free of charge. If you have private medical insurance, the ambulance may be covered by the insurance company, but you need to confirm the specific coverage with your insurance company.
For example, some policies may pay only once a year for ambulances, and you will need to pay for all follow-up ambulances for that year.
It is common for ambulances to cost more than A $1000 a time. To reduce the cost of using an ambulance, you need to be a member of the ambulance service. For members, ambulances are used at an annual cost of A $41.3 per person and A $82.6 per household.
http://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/
3. Call a taxi late at night?
Late-night taxis need to be paid in advance.
Between 10 pm and 5 a.m., drivers collect advance payments from passengers based on a peer-to-peer valuation form. You can use the cost estimate system to estimate the fare to be paid in advance. Melbourne taxis charge a certain amount of extra, such as a surcharge for a ride between midnight and 5 a.m., a taxi reservation by phone, a Citylink toll highway, and so on. In addition to the airport taxi also has to pay for taxi queuing costs.
Melbourne`s main taxi companies are:
13 CABS (booking Tel: 13 22 27 can only be dialed within Australia)
www.13cabs.com.auSilver
Top Taxi Company (Silver Top Taxis) (booking Tel: 13 10 08 can only be dialed within Australia)
www.silvertop.com.au
4. Does the tax number have to be issued?
All persons with income in Australia are required to have the tax file number (tax number, or TFN).)
You can apply for a tax number online or by telephone from the Australian Inland Revenue Authority, or at the IRS office location. Please be sure to apply for the number as soon as you arrive in Australia. It is also important that when you open a bank account, if you provide a tax number to the bank, you can reduce some of the charges.
5. What if the lock is broken or the key is missing?
A person lives outside, inevitably encounter the door lock broken or the key loss causes the situation that cannot return home.
In such cases, you may find a locksmith during the day, but at night, the locksmith will be charged extra. If you encounter an unreliable locksmith (bad guy), it will get worse. Here`s a 24-hour reliable locksmith,: Automotive Locksmith Services.
6. You were fined for not buying a ticket by bus?
Melbourne`s bus costs are not cheap for foreign students. Although ticket checks are strict, many people are willing to risk flight tickets. Ten thousand and one unlucky encounter escape ticket to be checked what to do?
The judiciary here, not as ruthless as the Chinese judiciary, has a chance to revoke your ticket. After being punished, you write an explanation letter to the relevant department, preferably express your intention not to escape the ticket, but because of other reasons, such as the card is missing or there is no change to buy the card, the time is too fast, forced to escape the ticket. Ask them to give you a chance, blabla..
If you use a concessionaire card, you need to carry a half-price card on your body, otherwise, it will be handled when the ticket is evaded.
Of course, this is only an expedient, to be a law-abiding person is still the safest.
7. Parking in Melbourne?
Melbourne parking has been a problem for drivers. Here is how you will not be punished for parking:
Do not park in the opposite direction:
When parking in the street, especially in front of a row of vehicles, you may feel that parking in the opposite direction is more convenient, cars easier to enter. Please note that this is illegal, the amount of penalty called Parking against the direction of travel, is the same as the amount of overtime parking, parking in the opposite direction is very difficult to complain of success, the inspector must take photos as proof.
Make good use of your phone:
For example, when you park, if the car behind you does not park well, forcing you to park your own car slightly beyond the parking grid, in this case, remember to take pictures as a souvenir. Take a few photos from the middle of the front and back, shoot the other person`s license plate, and if you need a complaint, you`ll have the evidence in hand.
Slightly moving vehicles cannot evade violations:
It was asked whether parking in a time-limited parking area and moving the vehicle forward or backward one position before the deadline (such as an hour) could be parked for another hour. The answer was, if the inspectors found out, The punishment is still the same. It`s easy for the inspector to get evidence. He takes pictures before and after. If you want to move the vehicle, you must move to another parking area, such as the adjacent street.
Permit Zone：
Permit Zone is the meaning of the permit area, which is mainly to take care of the residential parking spaces on the street. When the permit area comes into effect, inspectors tend to haunt, do not take chances, and if your vehicle does not have a permit to the area, do not take risks. If many residents see an outsider parking in the license area, they will call council people, including at night, including weekends, and don`t take it lightly.
Loading Zone：
Loading Zone is the cargo handling area, which is dedicated to the parking of commercially registered (commercially registered) vehicles. To put it simply, ordinary private cars are not commercially registered vehicles. The annual fee for commercial registered vehicles is relatively expensive. As a price, these vehicles are eligible to park in Loadng Zone.
Private cars driven by ordinary people who park in Loading Zone for short periods of time, such as picking up a friend quickly or dropping down a passenger or moving something quickly, should leave as soon as possible, and drivers should not stay away from the car.
Ps: if the ticket is actually issued, you can also use the same method, go to the official website to appeal, write an explanation letter, if it is the first time, tell them that you are a passenger, not familiar with the parking regulations, there is a good chance to withdraw.
