Originally Posted by GazN

It's easier once you are in a rental etc, but you can do it on the move quite easily these days. I have one of the small "net book" laptops which I took on the flight as hand luggage. I was able to log onto a wireless connection at all airports to send email, and skype and I had made sure that our initial accomodation had a broadband connection too. It wasn't cheap (except for Singapore airport where it was free), but it did mean we could keep in touch. Oh, don't forget to take your charger and plug adapter. Once you are in Australia, quite a few coffee shops have wireless, so you should be able to connect somewhere before your own landline is set up.

Hope that helps,

Gaz.