As well as the College engineering/Jacob's hobbing machine have you had a look on the net at the Martin version which has improvements for the spindles being mounted on roller bearings and a inbuilt tray for the swarf, Both of the suppliers you can buy just the drawings and you could combine the best feachers of both machines also being in Australia and would need to either fabricate or make patterns you could scale up so you can cut larger gears.
The Jacob's gear hobber was covered in the British MEW mag some year ago including the making and relieving of hobs which is usefull to save the expence.