A child has to be in a booster/harness until 7 years so no...no car seat will rearface till that age.

Overseas carseats are illegal to use here as they do not meet our safety standards...you can be fined and your car insurance voided if yo uuse hem. The longest you can rearface at present in any australian carseat is 12 kgs although there is currently a lobby for amending the standards so seats that will rearface longer can be sold here (such as ones sold in some scandanavian countries).

You also have to take into account height as well as weight...we bought a 12kg rated capsule but they only go to 70odd cms in height....DS topped that at 9months and 9kilos so we had to fork out for a convertible carseat to keep him rearfacing for as long as possible. We went with the Platinum AHR AIR as it the safest reversible carseat on the market at present....but not cheap. this should last him till 4 yrs or so when he will need to go into a harnessed booster.
Mel do you have a link with the info re insurance being voided as my SIL is planning on getting a car seat from Swedden and I was having this argument about TAC and insurance not covereing her baby if she had an accident, but she felt that a fine was ok if he was safe.

DS1 because forward facing not long before I had DS2 as I needed the car seat for baby.

DS2 is still rear facing at nearly 15 months, I need to weigh him again to see how long till I have to face him the other way.
DS1 is in a maxirider AHR
DS2 a Meridian AHR both are made by S and S