I was told by Commsec phone support that if you buy and sell within a one day period, they will simply debit or credit you the difference of the trade.
ie, you sell shares worth 25k on monday morning, and buy 10k worth of shares on monday arvo, they will credit your account with 15k on thursday.
However, as you have the T3 terms, you don't have to have any money in your trading account untill settlement, so you could buy on Monday, put money in one Wednesday, and it will settle Thursday.
Also, if you had no cash in the trade account, you could buy on Monday, sell on Monday arvo for a $500 profit, and you will simply get credited with your profit on Thursday (minus trading fees, which are $19.95 for online trade).
So I guess you can consider it a line of credit.
Can someone please correct me if I have made any errors. I'm going by how Commsec has worked for me over the past.