If you want me to teach you how to collimate and set up your telescope properly let me know Matt. I work in the city and am in Bentley most Fridays.
Possibly a laser has its place, but they are just not accurate enough in my honest opinion irrespective of how good a quality you have. I don't want to move into the finer points of collimation but a laser will only correct 1 of 4 different errors and you need at least two errors corrected to get decent collimation. A laser and a cheshire correct for the same error as well, so having both is a waste of money only one is a bit easier if you don't know what your looking at.
I can collimate my system from being in parts to being accurately collimated to within microns of perfect alignment within 15 minutes, then my system is ready for long exposure DSO Astrophotography. I do this every time I use my telescope regardless of time.
Once again Matt a warm welcome from the Perth astronomy peeps!
Brendan