If your taxable income is abaove a centain level, you will need to pay Medicare levy if you haven't got medicare levy exemption certificate. As you are a overseas student, you are not entitle for medicare service, so you can fill in the form "Application for Madicate Levy Exemption" and post it to Medicare It takes about one month.
Also, if your taxable income is high enough for them to assesse whether you need to pay medicare levy surcharge if you haven't got private health insurance. Well, I am not 100% sure oshc is a type of private health insurance, but those private health insurance companies won't allow non-PR to buy their normal policy and have to push you to buy the insurance for visitors or overseas students. So in this case, I may treat OSHC a type of private health insurance as it covers GP, public hosiptals, emergency etc. |