Just for informations sake, if you have an international license and you're over 18 and had that license for longer than three years, you pay VicRoads some money and you get your full Victorian License with no need for a test. I think in NSW you don't have to have the international license for 3 years so you can get your license in a "recognised" country, come back, pay the money and be 18 and have a full license with no restrictions. I'm not 100% sure on the exact rule but it is something similar for those two states, I was looking into it a while ago.
Thats also probably why you see new migrants on the roads with full licenses who seem like they don't do a very good job of driving. I'm not a perfect driver myself, infact I'm a pretty crappy driver and I admit that.
[quote]Victorian full driver licence
To obtain a Victorian full driver licence you must have held and provide evidence that you have held an overseas driver licence for at least three years from your 18th birthday. Your overseas driver licence must be current or not expired by more than five years. Any period where you have been suspended or disqualified from driving is excluded when calculating the period of time you have held a licence.
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Exemptions from licence tests
If you hold a driver licence from one of the countries in the table below you are not required to undertake any tests provided your overseas driver licence is current or not expired by more than five years. However, you still need to make an appointment to changeover to a Victorian driver licence.
Austria
Finland
Isle of Man 1
Netherlands (Holland)
Sweden
Belgium
France
Italy
Norway
Switzerland
Canada
Germany
Japan
Portugal
UK
Croatia
Greece
Luxembourg
Singapore
USA
Denmark
Ireland
Malta 2
Spain
Guernsey
Jersey
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