We traveled to Australia in January of 2012 on a land tour run by Collette Vacations. It was just under two weeks in Australia, two days in Tasmania, and two weeks in New Zealand.(See Entire Itinerary) Because of the size of the country we had to fly six times (including Tasmania) to get around the eastern half of the Australia. It being their summer we experienced overall good weather and everyone we met were really friendly.  It was a great time.