 To build your network in Australia, I think you have to get in touch with alumni who are always willing to help. Career counselors in the university who are also willing to link you to other jobs around where you can meet and make new friends. Go out there, meet people, talk to people, join clubs, join associations, meet local people. That's where you build your networks. I think the key personnel is the student contact officer. This will give you all the information that you need to build the networks that will help you succeed in your academic life. Integrating with scholars who are also studying the same course that I do, that way we get a sense of the different contexts that policy and governance is of pertaining and then also how to adapt best practices from them. You never know who you meet in the future, maybe years to come. People here would have access to certain resources or would help you out and so those networks really do come in handy.