Yep, I'm not sure that the 90 min thing will apply - her current school will be 90 mins away from where we're moving to but obviously there's other local schools that she can go to - just that she doesn't want to transfer. At this stage she SAYS she wants to finish VCE but her grades and attendance don't support that, so she may get kicked out anyway. She always seems to 'get' that it's important to carry on at school, do as well as you can, you'll have more options that way - we'v been telling her that for three years and she says all the right things. But she skips classes, doesn't do homework, fails every subject and still believes she will get into uni. There's only so many pep talks/punishments you can give - she needs to learn the hard way that actions (or in this case inaction) have consequences.

Yep, I'll make sure she knows about Centrelink hassling her - I mean, she'll NEED a job anyway to pay rent, buy stuff so that will be a good incentive in itself. And, as I said before, a much better incentive than if she failed school, was living with us and it was just us telling her she needed to get out of bed and get a job.