I'm in Toowoomba too, but I've been way more pessimistic than you mate and spent the evening watching tv. At nearly midnight I was still awake and went out in the backyard without any hopes and there it was!
I was too tired for pulling out and setting up my dob and just enjoyed it with a 10x50 binos. With a sky very terse, that unusual Moon, which low luminosity allowed the Miky Way from the Pleiades to Eta Carina to add even more magic to the view,
it was so beautiful...
Great images by the way.