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Well as far as I know, all you have to do is figure out which is the "polar axis" of the mount. That is the axis about which your telescope turns when you adjust the RA setting. If you draw a line through that axis, that line has to point at the southern celestial pole. If you want to do imaging you have to do it very precisely but just to use it for visual use and just to begin with I think you can get away with it if it is just roughly right.
Roughly: Firstly adjust the polar axis tilt (the one that can be adjusted to tilt up and down) to 34.5 degrees for Adelaide, then set the tripod down on relatively flat ground and point the polar axis south, then turn the whole thing east (anti-clockwise) about 10 or 11 degrees to account for the difference between magnetic south and true south.
From then on, you are not allowed to lift the tripod up, you can only use the axis on the mount to point your telescope. It takes a little getting used to before you become good at pointing at all the different regions of the sky.
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