I haven't had any time to look into the auctions or selling side of things. I've been busy working in an evacuation centre down in Cooma and I thought I might be able to source some timber while I was there.
I had a team of ADF personnel there for a couple of weeks and thought they might be able to help me get some timber but they were a medical team not working with the engineers. The RFS were too busy actually fighting the fires so I wasn't going to bug them. Plenty of evacuees came to the centre but I wasn't going to ask somebody whose house just burnt down if I could get some timber from them.
On a good note though we had an old acoustic guitar donated by a lady from Red Cross for a young boy whose family lost everything. The guitar had a broken nut so I took it to the local music shop and asked them to fix it and I'd pay whatever. They just gave me a brand new Valencia and said "there you go all fixed". Gobsmacked.