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Anarchism rapidly reached Australia after its development as a distinct tendency in the wake of the Paris Commune. The Melbourne Anarchist Club was officially founded on 1 May 1886 and Anarchism became for a short time a significant minor current on the Australian left. Monty Miller, a veteran of the Eureka uprising, was a Western Australian affiliate of the Melbourne Anarchist Club. He would later become a well-known militant of the Industrial Workers of the World.
After the First World War Australian Anarchism fell into serious decline. The tradition was kept alive by among others the prominent agitator and street speaker Chummy Fleming who died in Melbourne in 1950 and by Italian Anarchists active in Melbourne's Matteotti Club and the North Queensland canefields. After World War Two the Sydney Libertarians developed a distinct brand of "pessimistic" or non-revolutionary Anarchism which neverteless fed into the Anarchist revival of the sixties and seventies which Australia shared with much of the developed world.
For a first link on Australian Anarchist history see: http://www.takver.com/history/biblio.htm
Particularly on the Sydney Libertarians: http://www.takver.com/history/sydney/indexsl.htm