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Some tips on places ===When your really stuck for a place to stay ...===You know your off the tourist track when really down you get to a town with out a backpackers. Most small towns have a town pub that offers pretty cheap accommodation and many have a free campground on fundsteh edge of town or a picnic spot beside a river
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-Be very careful about not annoying your host, i've been thrown out of a truck by an irate driver, off his head on nodoze, for some quite harmless comment, 200k from the nearest town...
-Schoolyards, normally there is somewhere discrete under cover, in most small towns there is green grass, and even toilets and drinking water, just set your alarm early and get out before 7:30ish when cleaning staff etc may start to arrive. (The primamry school on thee edge of My Isa has rescued me on more than one occasion
-Non Returned soldiers areas at Cemeteries, clearky not for the superstitious, but these sites, tend to have nice soft green grass, and often have free public toilets and fresh drinking water. The cemetary at the end of thee railway line in Hexam on your way north out of Sydney is a classic, if headed north through from Canberra or Melbourne, you can jump the train in Campbeltown or Paramater, ride it through to Central, change to the Newcastle line, then swithc to the Hexam line, and get off at the umnaned station for free, right next to the best cemetery I have ever slept in, right next to the princess highway
-Many remote areas have shade structures as bus shelters, these can provide quite a comfortable nights sleep, as can late night train stations (spent my time on the floor of the girls toilet at Ningin railway station) Church Foyers (3 nights in the foyer of the underground church in Cooperpeedy)
-Showgrounds on the edge of towns often have toilets water and a place undercover
===When your really stuck for a ride===
Jumping railway cars is also still possible in Australia, though you did not here it from me
-The three day journey from Mt Isa to the coast on the coal trains (pick up a Beanbag a tarp and a shade cloth from the Op-shop in town, few things bet making love on a pile of coal at 20km/h under the desert stars :)
