re: Traveling to Australia...how did you deal with the time/jet lag issues?

I've never been to Australia, but have had itineraries (30+hrs) like that to several places in East Asia. Just do whatever you can to stay up that Monday and not go to bed until at least later that afternoon. Obviously, it can be hard to sleep on a plane for some, me included. I just drink enough caffeine to almost kill myself when I get there and then sleep HARD that first night. I'll still end up waking up way earlier than normal, etc, but it's not terrible.