Jeez AV, nicely written (have you got a ghost writer!) - Ward Rooney couldnt have put it more succintly!
Seems that we all agree with you.
I see the high current S of WA atm (unusually strong for full summer at 1033 hPa), somehow "standing up" along the Aus E coast right up to circa Brissie by/during Thursday 10/2 in what normally would be a fire weather situation for Vic during Feb.
However from now till then, moist air will be drawn in over the tropics moistening the region of our northerly draw. This is supported by EC,GFS and Access.
Now not looking like an "Easterly Dip-like " situation that I thought it may have been this morning stated in the "next rain" thread, it now looks like an intersting pool of moist air situation when the Yasi remnants (which seem to me to surf the N side of the aforementioned high from S WA back to Vic) and the moist air from our N combine over Vic next Fri-Sun.
Not an avocate of exceptional rain for Vic (>60mm in Vic) for this system (yet - and by my track record will be wrong), but looks great for follow-up handy rain bang-smack centre in our hottest fire prone month.
Dont we just LOVE a summer La Nina event! (I done it again and havent acknowledged the hardship that many Vics are experiencing with the floods last 24 hrs - sorry).