It tells you on the customs website – if the item cost is more than AUD$1000, they’ll charge you 5% customs duty and 10% GST. If you split it into several packages, each worth less than $1k, you should be OK. It might be worth getting them to send the packages a week or more apart, though. See http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page5653.asp and http://www.customs.gov.au/webdata/re...sByPostFAQ.pdf for the full info.
In the past I have imported car parts from England, and got caught for duty and sales tax (pre-GST). I had to pay up at the mail centre, and sign a customs declaration, to get the parts. They had a drug detection dog going through all the new mail packages while I was in there. The dog was a bit excitable, and was causing all sorts of havoc - parcels were going everywhere!
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