If you can see the southern cross from where you are Crash you have a huge range of things you can look at. I don't know how much you'll see through 1x15 binocs, but with 11x70 there are a huge range of objects available to you from nebula to open clusters to globular clusters to double stars to galaxies (Large Magellanic Cloud and Small MC).
You should be able to see both the globular clusters Omega Centauri in Centaurus and 47 Tucanae in Toucanae
There is a wealth of viewing around the Eta Carina Nebula area including open cluster. You should be able to just make out the Tarantula nebula in the LMC
The things to see in the southern area of the sky are just too numerous to list. See if yo can get hold of or download the program Cartes du Ciel. Its a free planetarium program that you can use to print out star charts to use at night. I will also help you find your way around the sky at night. Alternatively you can buy the latest edition of Australian PC World with has a copy of Starry Night Enthusiast on its sample disk. Its a very good program. Similar to Cartes but with a more realistic graphic interface. See this link.
http://www.iceinspace.com/forum/show...&threadid=1284
I'm sure other's here will have their favourites to share with you.
Clear skies