Welcome to Queensland XD
250AUD per month is really a tight budget as usually cheap share
house is about $110 per week for a single room in Sunny Bank area
(nr Griffith), and 160+ for single rooms near UQ.(St Lucia)
If you are really on a tight budget, my suggestion is, find a
tempory accomondation first, then rent a whole house near the uni
or close to transport and sublease the rooms to other students.
Many students do this to save cost on accomondation.
If you can read chinese, you may want to check out the brisbane
shared accomondation forum on ozyoyo.com and find your first
accomondation there.
I do not suggest Unilodge or whatever accomondation options
provided by university. The pricing is unreasonable for the quality
of the room and very noisy also, most are exchange students who
party until the am. I stayed there before( Griffith Village) and
moved out in a month as i really couldnt stand the noice.
I live on the Gold Coast with two other girls and im happy to
host for a day or two if u come over to visit. Our apartment is 50m
to the beach :D