Thanks Simone for your replies.

For those overseas you may be interested to see how our new standards fare.

The practitioner assistant course is quite involved & not too many homeopaths I know are in a position to employ staff. This course is the pre-requisite to practitioner training (in Qld)at the TAFE college.
I believe it is based on the new national standards.
This is from a college of TAFE in Queensland:

http://www.southbank.tafe.net/course/DOM/39001QLD.htm

I am not going to continue with my formal homeopathic studies as the standards have risen whilst I have been studying & it is impossible to complete my studies to the new standards by 30 June.

I'm even thinking of quitting my day job & going to do a massage therapist qualification (where my prior & current studies ARE recognised.)and continuing to work with children.

Obviously I'm in the middle of my mid-life crisis..

I will continue to practice homeopathy in the classical method as an adjunct to my other therapies for as long as it is legal to do so & I can continue to get insurance.

I will continue to learn from self motivated studies of homeopathy through the net & with collegues who are like minded.

I wish the AHA all the best in their efforts to put homeopathy on the same level as allopathic medicine.