No idea about Act laws. Here in vic this is what I considered before purchasing:
1) keeping my car roadworthy (police, insurance, resale dramas are all things I like to avoid...) In VIC I would be keeping within the option 1 75mm tyre+suspension no need for engineering cert category.
2) Where do I want to go and what tyre will be best and reasonably economical to get me there. For me that would be a 33 inch MT. Seen as I'm placarded at 255/75r17 that gives me about 58mm to play with in suspension. Therefore I wanted to stay at 50mm or 2 inches. This may be completely different if I lived in the ACT.
3) next would be what do I want to carry and how much wheel travel do I expect to need also how much of a range of uses does the car have (do you load it for trips but also drive daily to work, towing). It's difficult to get a car to have good wheel travel off road while maintaining good ride in both unloaded and loaded conditions. Adjustable shocks and airbags can help with this but with airbags they can be costly.
4) cost, complexity, availability of parts. Yeah I could of fitted an imported kit but if something fails I could be up for air freight on a shock to get the car working again.
All things considered in my jkur that I use more for touring and short camping trips than anything else I went with tough dog 45mm adjustable shock kit from my local mechanic that I know well. I'm super happy with it after 2 years it's been great but is a lot firmer than stock which no doubt would not suit some.
Try and give some more info on what you want out of your car in terms of how much and how often you do what tasks, what tyre you want to run, whether you want to fit it and work on it yourself and hopefully you'll get some more relavent and usefull advise.
cheerio
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