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Dec 28th 2008, 10:47 pm

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Re: Driving Licence Question

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Originally Posted by slipshot

After spending 2.5 years in Aus I managed to survive on my UK license the entire time, this did NOT incur any points, just fines (which is fine) and never had an issue where I thought 'I wish I had an Aus driving licence'.

For me, the long er you can hold onto a UK licence the better as regardless of how you drive and your own intuition and capabilities, you will get nicked at some time...

That's OK if you are on a Visitor visa

Try it on a PR visa, and you may find you have no Insurance if you have an accident.

Dec 29th 2008, 6:02 pm

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JAJ

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Re: Driving Licence Question

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Originally Posted by moneypen20

Even if you don't need to change it over, more often than not it makes life easier if you do as an Aussie Driving Licence is the best form of ID which is requested on masses of things including sending a package overseas. They don't seem to like the UK ones in some places.

The reason some service providers don't like foreign documentation (or even out of state documents in some cases) is that it's not so easy for them to tell if it's genuine or a fake.

Dec 30th 2008, 8:54 am

#18

BATS666

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Re: Driving Licence Question

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Originally Posted by PaulandNic

But they'll throw them onto your Aussie licence once you apply for it so beware!

I was on a student visa. Got 2 speeding fines. Paid fines and no points.

Applied for QLD licence months later, and it came with 7 points missing already ...

Bummer !! Do the points expire if I hang on to my UK licence for 3 years before applying for my Oz licence ????
I'm happy for the fines and points to be sent to the UK...coz I ain't there !!

Dec 30th 2008, 7:33 pm

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Re: Driving Licence Question

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Originally Posted by Stu Ward

So we need to hire a car for when the folks come over, and i need to take my car to work for one of the weeks.

Can we hire a car no sweat with a UK driving licence ?

Stu

A very interesting point when I rented a car in Sydney recently on a visit, (I hold an Australian licence). I got a quote, then the price dropped a fair bit when I produced my Australian licence, he obviously thought I was a tourist (i was) by my English accent and had quoted one price which then changed when I showed him that I was a local (according to my licence address, a friends house in Sydney). A very obvious duel pricing policy going on.
An Australian Licence is not hard to get if you have a full UK licence, so is worth getting, I think you may run into problems driving a privately registered car on a UK licence (not a rental car though)