Thanks again for the reply!
I've been doing some research but have yet find solo rates as low as 60-80. Most schools I found ask for around 100 for solo. Can we actually name flight schools in this forum?
And as for the RPL, my understanding is that if I want to later work towards a PPL I'll have to first convert the RA-Aus certificate into the RPL; and most advertize that as a rather strictforward and cheap process of filling some forms and going through a flight review, but it is actually more complicated than that?