Ryan,
In Melbourne the Light pollution is always going to be your worst enemy when doing astrophotography (apart from the clouds needless to say really).
Without a Ha sensitive chip you will struggle to get any nebulosity coming through in your shots. I found this too when I first began.
You may want to consider full spectrum modifying your Canon dslr. It will help you get some colour coming through which will amaze you. But you can still manage to get around this by increasing your ISO to say 1600 and you will for now see a big difference.
All the while continue to have a go and good luck!
Anth
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