Jenisha
Adhikari

Jenisha Adhikari didn't plan to build a website. She planned to finish her Chartered Accountancy exams, get her head down, and figure out Sydney the way everyone else does — slowly, quietly, and mostly alone.

She moved from Nepal to Sydney in early 2026. No job lined up. No family in the city. Just a suitcase, a share house booking she'd made from 9,000 kilometres away, and an absolute mountain of things she needed to understand before her first week was out.

How do you get a Tax File Number? Which Medicare card can a new migrant actually apply for? What are your actual rights if a landlord takes your bond? Can you open a bank account before you have an Australian address? What does your employer legally have to put on a payslip? How do you add money to an Opal card so you're not that person fumbling at the gate while a train leaves without you?

Simple questions. Every single one sent her to a different government website, an outdated forum post, a Reddit thread from 2019 with six contradictory answers, or a page that answered a slightly different question than the one she'd actually asked.

That frustration didn't go away. It got louder. She watched the same confusion play out in her share house, in WhatsApp groups for new arrivals, in the questions her neighbours were too embarrassed to ask their employers. Smart people — engineers, nurses, accountants, teachers — spending hours on information that should take minutes.

She made a decision that surprised people who knew her: she walked away from her CA studies.

Not because she couldn't do it. Because she'd found something more urgent. She started writing every guide she wished had existed when she arrived. She read Department of Home Affairs policy documents so she could summarise them in plain English. She cross-referenced Fair Work guidelines against what employers were actually telling people. She wrote and rewrote until the answer was something a first-week migrant could actually use — not a legal disclaimer dressed up as help.

LandedAU was the result.

It launched in 2026 and has grown into one of the most comprehensive practical guides for new arrivals in Australia — covering over 90 topics across visas, housing, tax, work rights, healthcare, banking, suburbs, scams, and everyday Sydney life. Every article is written the way Jenisha needed information written when she arrived: direct, sourced, and honest about what it doesn't cover.

What she built, and why it matters

Most websites about moving to Australia are written for an imaginary reader — someone calm, patient, already familiar with how Australian bureaucracy works, happy to read 3,000 words to find one specific answer. That's not who actually arrives.

The people who actually arrive are exhausted from the move, overwhelmed by the paperwork, unsure who to trust, and trying to figure all of this out while also starting a new job, finding a permanent place to live, and adjusting to a country that does a surprising number of things differently than they expected.

Every article on LandedAU is written for that person. The answer is at the top. The sources are linked. The disclaimer is honest about what professional advice you should actually get. And the guide keeps getting updated as laws change — because Jenisha knows firsthand that outdated information isn't just unhelpful, it can cost someone real money or real legal risk.

Editorial standards

LandedAU doesn't accept sponsored content that influences what gets recommended. Every guide is checked against primary official sources — Home Affairs, the ATO, Fair Work, Services Australia, NSW Fair Trading, and others — before publication. YMYL articles (visa, tax, legal, health) carry clear disclaimers that the content is general information, not professional advice. If something is uncertain, LandedAU says so.