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I was on another forum, and nearly got my head chewed off for not ever practicing extended rear-facing. I honestly had never heard of it before, and it was never mentioned in anything I read about car restraints in Aus.
I had never even heard of extended-rear facing until I read about it on an online forum, and when I tried to google Australian sources of information for it, there was barely anything.

I don't even think there are car seats designed for rear facing past 9 kg (around 20 pounds) available in Australia (However this is only from a quick search, certainly not 100% clear fact!, there are convertible seats(rear facing to front facing) that can suit up to 18 kilos, but most say once a child hits 9 kilos to turn it around

Anyway, my son is two, so I'm probably not going to be switching seats again any time soon, just wondering if any other Aussie parent does it, or if they had even heard of it?!

Yes, the Australian car seat safety laws are hideous.
You most likely didn't know because it is somehow acceptable here to turn a baby at 6 months. But google forward facing babies in car accidents and it is scary, scary stuff!

I am not sure what car seat you have, but I have a safe and sound premier and that rear faces till 12 kilos ( which was roughly 12 months for my babies), and I plan to rear face my daughter for the same time, or until she is 12 kilos. Unfortunately that is the maximum rear facing weight seat available here.
It is highly recommended you rear face as long as possible, because a young babies spine just isnt strong enough to cope with the force of an accident when thrown forward in the forward facing position.

Australian laws and car seats really need to get with it.