This beetle had a greenish irridescent back and orange head. It was on this little shrub with thorns that I couldn't see another one of. Its all wet because it was lightly raining.
Hi Kylie, The shrub is blackthorn, Bursaria spinosa, yet again. It is common stuff. My guess would be a pittosporum beetle, Lamprolina sp., as Bursaria and Pittosporum are in the same plant family, and we have photographed Lamprolina on Bursaria. But yeah, the photos are not good enough to say for sure, but your description certainly fits that species.
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