Medicare, Bank, Driver's License, Tax file number etc

On the second day we started to get organized. Most shops are open on saturday and sunday over here, but they close around 17:00. We went back to the Sunshine Coast and this time we went to the Sunshine Plaza in Maroochydore : A fantastic shopping centre that has it all. We first went to the driver license office where we couldn't get our license because we needed an Australian bank card for identification purposes. We went to the bank ( Commonwealth or CBA in short ) and couldn't get a bank card because we didn't have a phone number. So we went to the phone shop and couldn't get a phone because we didn't have a bank account. Chicken and egg.

So after some thinking we bought a prepaid phone which didn't require a bank card, got a bank account from the CBA using our prepaid phone, got our medicare arranged too and filed for a TFN ( which we will need to give to the bank still ) which will all pretty much arrive in 2-3 weeks except the CBA which should arrive in 4-5 days.
The only problem we had is that all of these required an address, but they will happily use the address of our rental ( B&B room ) so we used that. We told em to use a "paperless" account which means you get all your mail online, saves the hassle.

Then we went to the Woolies ( Woolworths ) and got our first things :
- Notebook to write down things in ( should have brought this from Europe... doh )
- Some bread + muesli + milk ( "Light White" milk tastes good we think )
- 2 Australia -> Euro converter plugs for 220 volts ( laptops / music etc )
- Danish Cheese ( Arla : The best cheese in the world , round and red )
- Meat ( burgers + Steak )
- Mayo
- Butter

And some more stuff. We bought 3 small peanutbutters ( all different ones ) but we threw them all out because they tasted like american / english peanutbutter. We might have to buy some Calve in the Dutch Shop in Brissie or Caloundra.

The day was over quickly and we had a cookie for dinner and some bread, still jetlagged from our travels.