The continent Australia has played a minor role in the history of 'palmistry' - but the books presented by Andrew Fitzherbert belong to the most popular & recommended works in the field:
But Richard Webster is nowadays the most succesful palm reading from the continent Australia.
Webster is living in New Zealand. Richard Webster's palmreading book: Palm Reading for Beginners was in 2010 listed in the Amazon palmistry books TOP 10.
Choose a topic in the 'AUSTRALIA INDEX'
Or... watch this youtube-video! - Which includes a quick introduction to some palm reading basics (find an introduction here: scientific palm reading guide):
Other popular palmistry authors from Australia are: Laeticia Valverde & Peter Hazel;
The famous 'Sydney line' was named after the residence of one it's early discoverers: S.G. Purvis-Smith - who lived in Sydney, Australia, and described it's significance for Down syndrome.
Later the Sydney line was recognized by medical science as a 'minor physical anomaly' - just like the simian line; more...