The South Coast Line traverses the 60 miles between Wollongong and Sydney; the light rail will take you anywhere you need to go in downtown Sydney; and the ferries traverse the Sydney Harbour and Hunter River in Newcastle. Most cities have bus routes around the cities, so during the week I use the bus to get around. Something awesome about the city I live in is that Wollongong has two free public buses, the 55A and the 55C. They do laps around the city in opposite directions (the A and C stand for anticlockwise and clockwise) and stop at lots of important places like the university I work at, the beach, the train station and downtown. The closest bus stop is an easy ten minute walk from where I live, and the buses come every ten minutes. So it's super easy to get where I need to go. On the weekends, I usually use the trains to explore places up and down the coast or to go up to Sydney for events. And I'm not the only one using public transport almost every day. Of all the capital cities in Australia, Sydney has the highest rate of public transportation usage: more than three-quarters of people who travel to and from Sydney during the week use public transport!
Of course, Australia is huge, so sometimes you need to use a car or even take a flight to reach your destination. People use trucks (or utes as the Ozzies say) to travel to the more remote places in the Australian outback. Usually, these utes are equipped with a bumper guard, "snorkel" and a radio antenna. The bumper guard is for deflecting wild animals such as kangaroos, the snorkels increase airflow to the engines, and the radio antenna allows radio communication when there is no cell phone service available.
