Welcome to skype, you know about the skype In they have, this is where you get a phone number of skype , as you ring Australia you would have an Australian phone number ,so then your family from down under would ring that number and it would be a local call, our friends from Finland ring from their mobile phones to my skype IN in Ireand and it is the same as ring a phone in Finland which if you are on the right call rate costs less than 2 cent a minute from a mobile , it cost me about 30.00 euro a year for skype In which is well worth it. Think about it ringing from a mobile in Finland to a Finnish landline which happens to be in Ireland costs the caller 2 cent a minute, also you can use 3 way chats