says Anthony Myint, co-founder of Mission Chinese, a local restaurant that has been adding an optional 3% surcharge to its bills since last summer.

The new initiative comes against a backdrop of rising dining prices. In January, full-service restaurant prices were up 2.7 percent from a year earlier, well above the 1.6 percent annual rise for inflation overall, according to the consumer price index.

But Myint is convinced adding a few cents to a bill for a good cause won't make customers balk.

"Since we started adding 3% last summer, zero people have opted out," he says.

The genesis of the new tax is Myint's deep passion for combining entrepreneurship with social activism. A few years ago, he started the Perennial Farming Initiative, a non-profit aimed at helping restaurant owners go carbonus back to her hometown of Young, a rural farming town. We’ve met her extended family; picked cherries with her uncle on his organic stone fruit farm, played with a potty lamb called Pumpkin and jumped in the header (combine harvester) with uncle #2 as he explained cronulla harvesting. Most Brits who come to Australia either on holiday, whilst travelling, or emigrating do not tend to visit places like Young and we felt privileged to see a completely different side to life in Australia.

04. Join a gym

I was not an exercise aficionado in London. Put-off by the cold, dark mornings, I would stagger down to my local Pure Gym maybe once or twice a month. Since living in Sydney I now exercise 4-5 times a week. Nearly everyone