Some of us already knew

[Belzybob]

The part about being able to import second hand cars from Japan is interesting .
Second hand cars being imported from Japan used to happen (early 90's from memory) in WA but was stopped (or restricted) by regulation .
An aunt of mine had a second hand Jap import Corola 1.8l diesel that wasn't available locally . Was a great little car , cheap to run and i think she got 300,000 km out of it.

I think it was just personal imports that were restricted. There are still car yards around Perth that import used cars from Japan - probably at a very large mark up.

Unless its changed and it was a while back that I researched it, in Japan once a car reaches 3 years old it becomes expensive to keep them due to licencing requirements. They can then be picked up very cheaply.

Oh and yes, we need that election!