Touring Australia

[rotor]

One last question, if I may:

In Canada (all the provinces, I believe) a person who has only an automobile driver license (i.e., not one with the "motorcycle class"), can not register a motorcycle in his or her name. The reason is simple: no insurance company would sell such an individual the liability insurance, and without this the registration is simply not possible. Would the same be the case in Australian states? If I understood one of the previous answers correctly, the liability insurance fee is paid to the government as part of the registration, and not something that involves a separate transaction with a private insurance company.

The reason for asking is this:

I could possibly find an Australian who would be willing to buy (with my money, of course) and register the motorcycle as the owner, and then simply let me use it. He himself would not be able to ride it without breaking the law, but he has no interest or need to do it.

tia, Rotor

A bitbof an aside, but ICBC (the provincial insurer in BC) will, for some unknown reason, sell you insurance for vehicles you don't have a license to operate. This is despite the fact that getting in an accident like this would lead to no coverage due to violating the terms of your insurance.

You see this alot here with class-a motorhomes and motorcycles. An RCMP officer I occasionally ride with has told me that during peak summer months about 1 in 5 people he stops on bikes don't have motorcycle licenses.

This is not entirely without merit, one might own a class-a motorhome and hire a chauffeur/valet, with an appropriate license, to drive him around. In principle, same as me driving a motorcycle that belongs to my Australian relative who does not have a m/c class license.