Hi Teash,
Jen's advice is what I would have suggested. I also recomend getting along to an astro club, or one of the various gathering organised through IIS, like at Mangrove Mountain's 'Pony club', or, a bit further from you, Katoomba Airfield. There you will see various styles of scope in action, and the set-up proceedure that each goes through. Dobs can take as little as 3 minutes. Equatorial mounted refractors/newtonians, can take upto 30 to have tracking down pat.
This experience will show the advantage of going to a dedicated telescope shop, and not 'department store' specials. The scopes on offer in each are like chaulk and cheese.
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