South East Region covering most of Victoria, Tasmania and some New South Wales border areas. North East Region covering Queensland and some New South Wales border areas. All listings in AusStay include the area code. An option to make international and local calls is to use a Telstra Phonecard. Retailers such as newsagencies have PhoneCard signs.
Most public phones take coins.
Local calls are 40 cents and are not timed. Generally all phones have access to '000' except those classified as 'outgoing access barred' or 'incoming calls only'. This is a free call. Australian phone numbers can be found online using the White Pages for private, business and government numbers listed by name, or the Yellow Pages for business services grouped by service type. The end of Summer Time will be at 3am on 25 March 2001 when clocks will be turned back to 2am.