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Advising Australians about risks overseas
To help Australians avoid difficulties overseas, DFAT maintains travel advisories for more than 160 destinations. The advisories provide accurate, up-to-date information about the risks Australians might face overseas, enabling you to make well-informed decisions about whether, when and where to travel. If you are living or travelling overseas we recommend that you subscribe to receive free automatic email notification each time the travel advice for your selected destination/s is updated. That way you can ensure that you have the latest information.
Our travel advisories are just that: advice. They are not warnings. In addition to information about security, they provide useful, practical tips on travelling such as health, visa and local laws information. In issuing travel advice we do not 'single out' countries. Rather, we maintain a travel advice on most countries that are popular destinations for Australians in all regions of the world.
We do not and cannot make decisions for you about whether, when or where you should travel. Our travel advisories aim to help you make your own well-informed travel decisions. Our advice is not mandatory.
Travel advice, like online registration of your travel details and travel insurance, are tools to help you avoid difficulties while travelling. The information in our travel advice is as current as we can possibly make it. Travel advisories are kept under constant review but as a matter of course every travel advice is reissued and reassessed every quarter. If developments in a country require more regular updates we will respond through the travel advice. Accordingly, we encourage Australians not only to read the Department’s travel advice before they leave, but also to monitor it carefully while travelling
Where we advise you ‘not to travel’ or to ‘reconsider your need to travel’, you may wish to review carefully your travel plans. Before cancelling, check with your travel agent, your travel insurer or the airline/tour operator, as cancelling a scheduled trip may cost you money. The decision to travel is the sole responsibility of the individual.
Australians are also responsible for their own personal safety. The purpose of travel advice is to provide Australians with up-to-date information to enable them to make well-informed decisions.
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