You get the same experience at UNSW - in any B.Eng you do, it's a requirement for graduation to do at least 60 days. At UNSW we just don't shove it into the degree making it annoyingly longer, we do it in our own time in summer or winter breaks.
Almost everything at the racecourse is permanent, they put up some new marquees this year though that they didn't have last year, so I assume those are temporary. Got an exam for one of my courses in one of the new ones, so they're probably for smaller cohorts only since the course only has...
I would disagree with the pricing above for homes, but the postgrad salary may be around right. To confirm stuff though:
Use these websites for housing:
http://www.domain.com.au/
Use Google Maps to find locations near uni and stuff.
Hopefully a current PhD student can comment on salary, but I...
Accom depends on where you want to live, and your budget. Would you like to live on campus in a college environment, where food is provided/social activities happen all the time etc, and get more of a home feel? Or would you like to live on campus in a more independent apartment where you can do...
Here are campus photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/unsw/
Chicks on campus suck unless you're in the arts faculty, maths chicks are 99% asian unfortunately, like you said with the high international reputation we attract a lot of people from Asia who move to study here. You'll need to meet...
It depends on what you're looking at - we really need more info, i.e are you international or domestic, and what courses are you looking at over summer?
A general rule is that most courses are the same price over summer for domestic students (possibly for intl. students too), except for ASB...