I investigated the possibility of shipping my Canadian motorcycle to Australia, so that I could ride around that continent for a couple of months on my own moto.
I discovered that one has to purchase a carnet (essentially a customs bond) to admit a foreign vehicle to Australia for tourist purposes. The carnet costs about $1,000. So I abandoned that idea.
I note that your profile shows that you are from Perth, but your inquiry is about shipping bikes from the USA to Australia. So I can't tell if you are interested in permanently importing the bikes, or just temporarily importing them for tourist purposes, with the intention of exporting them again.
Either way, I think it's going to be a big headache for you. Physical transportation will be the least of your concerns, the problems are going to be either the carnet (for a temporary import), duties, taxes, and conformity to Australian vehicle regulations (for a permanent import), and quarantine & sanitizing (steam cleaning, etc.) of the bikes in both cases.
In other words, unless the two bikes are really special (classic bikes, collectors' items, etc.), I think you will probably discover that it's not worth the effort.
Michael
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