As mentioned in recent talk-au mailing list posts, the mashup australia competition is now open and as a side effect we now have some lovely datasets available for the first time under CC-BY licencing.

I've converted and added the cadastre shapefile dataset to a WMS server. (Due to disk space constraints I've chosen to keep the geometry only, which is all you need if you want to trace medial lines for the basic route of highways, railways and waterways).

I've added the WMS connection and source details to this page:
osm.wiki/Australian_Data_Imports

Strictly speaking it's not a data import - I'm only using it to trace off. However if the OSM leadership would like to import 2.1 million property boundaries into the OSM database then please let me know.

For the impatient you can set a new WMS server entry in JOSM to the following address:
http://206.123.75.6/cgi/ms/mapserv?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetMap&layers=dcdb_lite_geometry&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/png&map=../../mapserv/wms.osm.au.qld.map& (the last & is important!)
It will work up to about a 1:10000 scale, but at that point most street casements are only a handful of pixels wide.

Apparently my mapserver manual tells me it might also work as a WFS server as well, but I haven't had a chance to source a WFS client to verify.

I've been using it tonight to add in generic streets around Calliope (just inland from Gladstone), as per the location attached to this diary entry. It seems to have grown quite a bit since the effective-date of the ABS suburb import, especially towards the NE.

Other areas to benefit so far have been Springfield and North Lakes in the Brisbane metropolitan area.