Welcome to Australia

Australia is a wild and beautiful place, a colourful land of bright reds and oranges of the outback sands and vibrant greens and blues of the reefs, rainforests and beaches that surround modern cities and expressive indigenous culture.

Australia is a land like no other, with about one million different native species. More than 80 per cent of the country’s flowering plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia, along with most of its freshwater fish and almost half of its birds.

The geographic isolation here has meant that much of its flora and fauna is very different from species in other parts of the world. Most are found nowhere else. However, some closely related species are found on the continents which once made up the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana.

Australia’s population is almost 25 million and concentrated along the coast region from Cairns to Adelaide, with another concentration around Perth in Western Australia. The centre of Australia is sparsely populated and around 75% of the continent is either completely arid or semi-arid.

Investments have been made in many kinds of social infrastructure including health and education. Research is a defining characteristic of Australia’s Universities and Hospitals. For decades, Australian universities have delivered excellence in research and innovation and have advanced a research culture and system that has been responsible for world-leading breakthroughs. In many cases, these successes were collaborative research efforts both domestically and internationally.

International research collaborations are a mechanism for knowledge exchange, creating positive impacts throughout the broader community.

The more we engage globally the more we prosper.

Australian Healthcare

Medicare is the scheme that gives Australian residents access to healthcare. Most taxpayers pay a Medicare Levy of 2% of their taxable income to help fund it. Medicare gives you access to free or subsidised treatment by health professionals such as doctors, specialists, optometrists, dentists and other allied health practitioners (in special circumstances only), with free treatment and accommodation as a public (Medicare) patient in a public hospital. Medicare also provides 75% of the Medicare Schedule fee for services and procedures if you are a private patient in a public or private hospital (not including hospital accommodation and items such as theatre fees and medicines).

Medicare also provides limited benefits if you are covered by a Reciprocal Health Care Agreement with another country. These countries are United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Malta, Italy, Belgium, the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand. New RHCA may be negotiated at any time.

Knowledgeable Doctors : Researchers

For more information on individual knowledgeable doctors listed below, please click the link for the website
associated with the knowledgeable doctor you are interested in learning more about.

* Indicates a member of the MpBC Global Alliance’s Medical/Scientific Advisory Board

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