 You need to build your network by just going out and speaking to someone and then see where it goes. Just be open to talking to people, even making contacts with your professors. I got a chance to teach a tutorial through one of my professors and it was a great experience to learn more about Australian students. You look outside the academics as well. I started playing squash and every week I get to meet new people, new teams. Now I know more about the culture of Australia. There's three networks for me. One are the people that are from back home that I know Australia at the moment and the second group would be my IAP cohort and the third would be the people from my field of study but from the university. Everyone is like you, new to our country. My first friends were Australia Hour scholarship friends and then it was just growing. Friends of friends, going together, going to exhibitions, events together. So that's how you connected.