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It appears your partner could transfer from Membership Rewards (Australia) to Starwood Preferred Guest to Qatar. Example:
40,000 Membership Rewards
20,000 Starwood
25,000 Qatar
1.6:1 isn't much worse than the 3:2 (1.5:1) that you would have achieved if the International Dollar Card routing worked (and I have not accounted for the exchange rate differential when transferring points from an Australian to USD account.).
Don't procrastinate. The SPG program ends is about 45 days.
Last edited by mia; Jun 14, 2018 at 6:18 pm