Hi,
Sorry for the lateness of my reply, I have been working in country Victoria without signal for the week, but I really do appreciate your fast responses, so thanks!
I am a UK citizen and will be going back early 2019. I was hoping to do my CPL before I go, but all you guys are right - no point doing it here and converting when it actually could be detrimental to me. I may have to work a bit longer to afford the cost difference is all. Maybe I'll just slowly get my PPL here and do the flight test conversion when I get back and at least then it's one less thing I have to do when I find a fully integrated course to frozen ATPL in Europe.
Thanks a lot, really helped me a lot.