G'Day Gerry and welcome to NeuroTalk
we have a number of members here from OZ

and I also orginate from the southern hemisphere, the southern tip of Africa to be exact! I live in Florida now.
Let us know if we can help in anyway to show you around the forums here
dont know if you saw the NeuroTalk 101 (or NT as we affectionately nickname our community)
I did a post yesterday to hopefully try to help our newbie members find their way around
here it is
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ad.php?t=18185