Useful Tips
- Shopping: Opening hours :
- Retail shops & boutiques, unrestricted.
- Supermarkets, generally 0700 to 2100 seven days a week.
- Smaller convenience stores, may open longer.
- Banks: open 0930 to 1600 h, Monday to Friday
- Goods & Services Tax (GST): of 10% applied to most purchases.
- ATMs and EFTPOS facilities are widely available.
- Petrol, available 24 hours in major centres.
- Speed limits:
- 50 km/h in built-up areas, unless otherwise indicated.
- 100 km/h maximum on roads outside cities and towns.
- Exception on a few high quality roads where limit is 110 km/h.
- On all open roads, however, lower speed limits are frequently indicated and must be adhered to.
- Speed cameras and random breath testing units operate throughout Tasmania.
- Seat belts: are compulsory and must be worn in all motor vehicles.
- Helmets are required for motorcyclists and bicyclists.
- Dial ‘000’ to contact police, fire and ambulance
- Time Zone: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). For daylight saving, clocks are advanced one hour between October and March.
- Electricity: European Standard - 230/240 volts (50 hertz)
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