British Citizen having a baby in Australia, advice please?

Question

We currently live in UK, my husband of 6 years is an aussie and is currently seeking employment in Perth with a view to us moving out there fairly soon. I believe it should be fairly straight forward to get a spouse visa & my kids have their australian citizenship. However I have just found out I'm pregnant and may be in Australia when the baby is due. Do I need healthcare insurance? Is the antenatal care provided like the NHS in UK? I really don't know where to start finding out any advice please. No sarcastic answers thanks.

Answer 1

Congratulations, I can't really offer much advice but I have a few links that might help.

This is a forum for British ex-pats living abroad, it has a section dedicated to Australia so you should be able to post questions and get help from people already living there:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisp...

These are about healthcare in Australia:

http://www.aussiemove.com/aus/health.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care...

This is about Medicare, which appears to be the Australian equivalent of the NHS:

http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/abou...

These are the contact numbers for Medicare:

http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/abou...