I don't think the rule has changed since I have been aware of roundabouts in NSW, NT or Tasmania. If it has it has made no difference since I have always indicated when exiting a round-a-about. Just common sense.

Also common sense to indicate left or right on entering if you are going either left, right or returning.

Perhaps these little round-a-bouts made in normal street intersections where quite a lot of people appear not to make the time to indicate properly have effected some nonchalance.

Instead of fines an order to have them wind down their windows and make proper hand signals for a week might inject enough appropriate wisdom.

Good signalling is essential and it goes well beyond indicator lights. How many times do you see someone sitting well forward at an intersection looking at their passenger  like a stunned mullet rather than exchanging glances to traffic especially right and left to let them know they are aware of their position? How often do drivers move wide to take a (in particularly) left hand corner?

Everyone's safety is dependent on giving and reading good signals. 

Bear in mind that indication of your intention is not only for you or the car behind you. It is also for the car waiting for entry onto the roundabout, so that they know whether it's safe to enter or not.

I do, however, agree with you that any rule changes should be conveyed to you with your licence / rego renewal.

Whilst on the subject of indicators, the majority of drivers in Australia seem to think that the time to indicate a left or right turn is as they are making the turn. How dumb can they get?  If one asks any driving instructor or policeperson, they will tell you that it is common decency to advise other road users at least 100 metres before the turn, NOT as they are turing.

It does make sense to me to indicate left at exit on a 2 lane roundabout if you are in the centre lane, because you are crossing/changing lanes. I also indicate to exit on single lane roundabouts as a courtesy to those drivers at the bottom of the pic waiting to enter.

Sometimes I think councils plant deliberately to speed traffic up - I am short and can't see cars on the other side so I just have to judge if the gap looks big enough...but I drive in NSW where the rule is not give way to the right - it is give way to everyone already on the roundabout - so the commonly used rule is "first in best dressed'.

Yes my neighbourhood also has people who don't indicate until they are actually turning, and even more who indicate right to leave the roundabout - they need a GPS to say "the other left" ... anyone with a partner who cannot navigate will know what I mean :)

Agree with you about the shrubs and bushes planted in the  roundabout that obscure the driver's vision Arvo

Of course you're right Banjo. If folks have driven on the Trafalgar Sq roundabout in London, or the autobahn in Germany, they would have no trouble handling this simple roundabout.

Rule of thumb, if a silly rule exists, follow it or cop a fine.

Or spend a few days in Canberra. Known as the roundabout capital of Australia! 

No wonder our PM keeps going round and round and roundabout and getting nowhere.

Still collecting your welfare payments? Then, the PM is doing his job.

Spoken like a true blue government troll.
For the record, I am not and never have been on any form of welfare.

@ Aviator, yep, ana the forum troll is still collecting.

The thread by the way ana is not about politics. It's about "roundabouts." Take note.

A Canberra roundabout. Been on this one Aviator?

Source: Lonely Planet

I'm sure I have during my travels ABE. When compared to the Magic Roundabout in Swindon, UK, anything in Australia seems rather tame to me. Here have a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGvj7GZSIo

Goodness, our simpleton LNP Pollies get bamboozled by the simplistic Canberran roundabouts, going round and round and round in circles. Imagine how they might deal with a really complex roundabout like in Swindon, UK? The mind boggles aviator and I agree with you that our pollies are too tame (or weak) to deal with such complicated journeying.

How exceedingly weird..agreeing with something Aviator never said!!

Aviator, I remember the Magic roundabout well and would avoid it like the plague. The most terrifying experience. Must say though, the British are very polite drivers when it comes to roundabouts. Driving in Paris is quite another experience and not for the faint-hearted. A little trivia…

The world's first roundabout is 112 years old..the Etoile which surrounds the Arc de Triomphe in Paris  has eight lanes and took thirty years to build! Until the spring of 1907, traffic, mostly horse-drawn, was allowed to go around the Etoile in any direction that it fancied. Can you imagine that, horses in every direction! Today the Etoile is known as Place Charles de Gaulle. Nothing much has changed, it’s still crazy!

The British did not introduce their roundabouts until the early 1960s. I happen to like roundabouts, takes some of the monotony out of driving!

So many drivers don't seem to know the rules ...

AGREE

Just home on a Friday afternoon after passing through many roundabouts amidst the early rush hour of desperate and dangerous tradies and oblivious school pick-up parents.

Hair-raising to say the least!!

Tradies do drive like maniacs! Glad you got home safely RnR :)

I was advised when this rule came in and have had many an argument with people who don't know of it. Thanks NY19

I was advised when this rule came in and have had many an argument with people who don't know of it. Thanks NY19

Roundabout rules by state.

NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, WA, TAS, NT, ACT

They all seem basically the same to me. Knowing the rules plus exercising a bit of commonsense and restraint seems to be the go.

Thanks for that RnR

Had a quick squiz through the and NT is the only state that has the simplified diagram that is easily understood.

The other states have minute variation and differences of the same which I find confusing, so am pleased I am driving in NSW even if they have the highest fine.

When there are multiple Stop and/or Give Way signs at an intersection they cancel each other out and you revert back to the rules as if no signs existed at all. So your other half is correct.

In regards to the police, I don't understand why people have this thought that the cops know it all, traffic cops should know more but regular cops in general have a poor understanding of the road rules. It's just not their main focus and often "get it wrong". The "first there, first to go" is how it works in the USA, but most definitely NOT how it works here. 

The four -way stops are all over the USA and work well because over there the drivers generally are far more courteous to each other - I always found myself going first because everyone just looked at each other and didn't want to move first.

Ha ha, Greg ... "I always found myself going first because everyone just looked at each other and didn't want to move first."

We must be more courteous in Ipswich too because that's exactly what happens here. :)

I disagree KSS. Everyone knows they have an indicator lever and it doesn't take much brain power to understand the rules of a roundabout. What is mind boggling is that so many people don't understand the rules.