Howard..........
YES!
Forget about the P76 on wings.................Howard's suggestion's the WINNER. Accept an exploding Havana cigar Howard!
And at a measly CDN $230K (or so) what have you got to lose Deno? It's about $50K more than your oh-so-boring PA28 conversion, and the performance of the Aerocat makes the Cherokee option look like it's standing still!
I'm only going to need to save for about the next 5,000 years to afford one, so I'm really very excited!
SR (single-engine) version of the Aerocat about 150+kts................same for the TR twin-engine version................VERY impressive!
Twin-engine version about $310K by the looks of things. What's another $80K...........just another 1,700 years saving so no problems!
OK , Deno so you are probably going to be fairly limited in your use of the thing in inland Oz at present (because there's nowhere that you can easily land one of these suckers due to the drought), but if you're happy tooling around the coast then you are going to be one VERY cool dude in a really cool airframe!