FWIW Craigslist is a ghost town in Australia and virtually useless for buying & selling the type of stuff I used it for frequently when I lived in California. For example here's the furniture for sale section for Melbourne: http://melbourne.craigslist.com.au/fua/. Seems that in Australia people use Gumtree.com.au or even ebay.com.au for online classifieds.
gumtree is where it's at for apartment rentals and other big hard-to-ship odds and ends. then there's carsales.com.au for automobiles, and ebay for everything else. seems to work out okay.
