Thanks for the advice and good wishes - will know more over the next two - three weeks and it's all very exciting, expensive and terrifying (the move, although the same could be said for flying I suppose).
I've been following the links above and doing some googling and it is a very different setup (Recreational Pilots License is something I hadn't heard of before, for example) but once I have a better idea of dates of moves and if its Sydney or Melbourne I'll follow up.
Thanks again and please feel free to share any other pearls of wisdom!