With the wide variety of reasonably cheap transport options available, hitching is hard to justify. Backpackers hostels are located around Australia and are usually very safe as well as cheap. A personal recommendation is the best way to assess accommodation. Safety in the street Students from the United States need to be particularly careful to acclimate themselves to Australian traffic patterns - traffic travels on the left hand side of the road and accidents can occur if people fail to look BOTH WAYS every time. Sexuality Australia is generally a very open, tolerant society and many behaviors and activities are permitted.
Sexual choices are for the individual to decide upon.
Students may chose to be sexually active and if so they are advised to take adequate precautions in terms of contraception and 'safe sex' practices. On campus, the University Health and Counseling Service can give free and confidential advice. To quote Australia. Australia grows in popularity as a Queer destination', with Sydney the jewel in Australia's luscious navel'. The annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras which converts Sydney streets into a Gay playground is the reason for Sydney's colourful reputation.