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Old 25 Jan 2021
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That rule has changed now, the rolling 25-year rule replaces the previous pre-1989 rule.

https://www.carsales.com.au/editoria...o%20or%20more.

Mezo.
Well that makes perfect sense and is eminently sensible.
Therefore, this decision MUST have come from someone outside of government.
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As others have said, a carnet isn't going to work for two reasons:

1) It's a maximum of a year (you can extend for another year in some countries, however I'm sure that Australia limits the carnet to a year).

2) A carnet is for visitors, not residents, and you're going to be resident.

The "settler's effects" option might work, however you still have to pay for shipping, and recent enquiry has revealed that shipping costs have gone up a lot in the last year.

I'd buy a new bike in Australia; apart from other benefits this will avoid the potential for problems with maintenance, even if your bikes are standard and sold in Australia. When we travelled in Australia we found that because our vehicle was not originally registered there (i.e., had not been imported into the country by the manufacturer) we had problems because it didn't show up on the dealerships' database - i.e., as far as they were concerned, it didn't exist. This was fixed, with some helpful work by Arnott's in Sydney, but was somewhat inconvenient until they managed to solve the problem and get our vehicle onto the database.
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Just to add to your problems mate, if you do try and import your bike MUST comply with Australian Design Rules. A US bike will not. Several items at the very least will be required, including, orange turn signals, headlight that dips left, a KLM speedo, a compliant exhaust, right down to stuff like an Unleaded Fuel only sticker on the tank.

Buy in OZ and then flog it when you leave mate.
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