I rang the Perth based Ustaxcentre.com and they were bloody useless.  They didnt have a clue if I could negativly gear my house in the USA for Australian tax purposes. and they wanted $350 to do a very simple tax form (1040) I can do online in about 30 minutes.

DFW?  Thanks for the info will ring him. probably need to do my USA taxes, since I havent lodged in 3 years