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Tiger
Not sure what you mean by 'threshold' but for all award covered employees, overtime is as dictated by the particular award - note the number of initial hours at time and a half does vary from award to award, generally two or three, and each day stands alone - meaning anything in excess of 7.6 hrs is paid at overtime rates. Alternatively, any other industrial instrument (eg an EA) would include this as well.
FYI, the basic FT work week is 38 hours, no employer can force any employee to work longer hours. It is however, generally expected that salaried staff, especially more senior roles are paid to do the job, not by the hour so some expectation of reasonable extra hours may be expected but needs to be covered in the employment contract.
For these and other award free employees, key words are "reasonable" so where you have exceedingly busy times where people are putting in the big hours, then you should have some kind of time off in lieu system available to those staff.
Offset clauses in employment contracts are common but where doing away with entitlement by offering a salary, be sure to do your calculations to ensure the Employee is not disadvantaged in any way. Otherwise you risk fines by Fair Work.
Tiger