When I was in Australia and New Zealand the winter of 2006 (yours) the Milky Way was very impressive with the center of the galaxy nearly overhead. At 47N where I live it is very low and in the gunk. It was cloudy the whole time I was in the outback but cleared when I got to New Zealand and finally saw the dark sky in July. My eyes didn't see it quite like your image however! I can only wish they could have.

For some reason my default DNS couldn't find your website. Kept telling me the server was down. Since others saw it I put in a different server and now I can see the picture. I don't know what the problem is with my system's default server. Are others having this problem or only my ISP's DNS server?

Rick