Can you erase a criminal record?

Can you erase criminal record in Australia, you cannot completely erase criminal record from police database, but you can have it spent after 10 years for adults and 5 years for juveniles under Spent Convictions Scheme if no further offending and sentence under 30 months, so not disclosed for most jobs, and you can apply for expungement for historical homosexual offences and some minor offences. In Australia, criminal record stays on National Police History permanently, but becomes spent after 10 years for adults with no further conviction and sentence under 30 months, and 5 years for juveniles, meaning for most employment checks spent convictions not shown, though for police, working with children and government jobs still shown. You can apply for expungement for historical homosexual offences pre-1990, with conviction erased from record completely via state expungement scheme free. For other offences, you cannot erase, but you can apply for pardon via Governor, rare. For example, theft conviction 12 months, after 10 years no further offending, becomes spent and not shown on standard criminal check $50 for retail job, but shown for working with children check $100. Serious offences over 30 months never spent. So you cannot erase criminal record completely except for historical homosexual offences expungement, but you can have it spent after 10 years for adults and 5 years for juveniles for most jobs if no further offending, with spent meaning not disclosed for 90% of employment checks, but remains on police database permanently.