The territory of Australia is so big, that 80 % of trips and journeys people make using the air transport. For many years the companies “Qantas” and “Ansett” remained being the monopolists in internal flights business, and their collaboration led to rising prices on tickets. But “Ansett” and her regional companies bankrupted recently, so “Qantas” often needs to compete with appearing new airlines. Not many people pay the whole price of a ticket in Australia, because there are many various discount systems on them.

Australia has very well-developed system of bus routes between many cities, which is served by several private and one state company called “Greyhound Pioneer Australia”. The buses are very comfortable, but if you travel from one big city to another, get ready to a very long journey. And, of course, Australia has its railway system, which connects all main cities of the country, except Darwin. Not many people prefer to travel on long distances by train, although it is much cheaper kind of transport (and also is much comfortable for night trips), but it is slower. Many travelers cooperate with other ones, or buy themselves their own car. Buying a car is not such a bad variant for traveling in Australia, if you will not have any breakages and failures. The speed highway 1 runs around the coast of Australian continent. But watch the road carefully, because too many lorry convoys ride there, which can deliver you mass of different troubles.