Good Australian bands that I think noone has mentioned yet:
Grey Daturas, drone/psyche trio. Japan has Boris, the US has Sun 0))) Asutralia has Grey Daturas. I'm pretty sure most sonic youth fans will enjoy them, especially there lastest album Dead in the Woods.
The Drones- good rock music along the lines of later The Scientists, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. They might be playign all tomorrows partys with mudhoney or something.
Kiosk- punk three piece who are touring the states in a few days, they dont really sound like anyone except maybe Huggy Bear.
Castings- Ambient/Drone six piece from Sydney. Their album 'allo hickory and a live CD are on sale at volcanic tongues I think.
Oren Ambachi- he is touring as a member of Sun 0))) in the states. RAD
Whitehorse- awesome awesome awesome doom metal band.
http://www.getonthehorse.com/whitehorse.htm
There is great shit going on in Australia that most people will be very unlucky not to hear. I've only known about it for about a year but we have too many awesome bands. Heaps of good bands (and some absolutely shit ones) are playing with Wolf Eyes when they come out so hopefully more people will see whats going on in there own backyard.