To practise as a psych here you need to have an undergrad in psych, honours, plus a masters. I think there is an alternative to doing honours + masters by doing on the job training so to speak, but it still takes many years.

So to do psych you need undergrad (3 yrs), honours (1 yr) + masters (2yrs), which is quite a long time to study for.

DH just finishes his undergrad in psych. This year at Monash the minimum grade average to get accepted into honours was 73, which for psych subjects like stats etc at a 3d year level (because they alter your marks to get a normal distrubution on a bell curve) is really quite high.

Not saying you can't do it, just that there are 6 years involved so you can actually work as a psychologist, and we just couldn't afford for DH to keep going, living on Austudy is hard, you rack up a huge HECS debt, and at a masters level you have to pay for it unless you get a scholarship. And it is really really hard to get those kinds of marks whilst still having a family. DH found it hard, 1 toddler and a pregnant wife who gave birth during exams, trying to compete against kids who lived at home and had no other responsibilities.