Tarnicus: I'm not a fan of them either but they can be a valuable survival food, IF you know how to identify them, which can be difficult as sometimes the only differences can be seen on a spore print under magnification. If any of you happen to play my post-apocalyptic game-book (hopefully the first of a series) when it is complete, here is a tip!
Amanita muscaria mushrooms can save your life, regardless of what you read in survival books! Fortunately this information is becoming more wide-spread, however many older text list them as deadly. They are not, especially when prepared correctly. They are starting to come up in my area now as Autumn/Fall is here. Boil them for 10 minutes. Drink the water for a psychoactive effect (at your own risk) as that converts the ibotenic acid to muscimol, the "high" and leaves the flesh safely edible :)
The nicest mushrooms to eat in the mountains are
Saffron Milk Caps. I don't really like mushrooms but these are pretty nice raw. Masses of people drive 2 hours from Sydney every year to harvest them.

xep624: BTW: I was told that mushroom picking in Australia is illegal... That's what I was told by mate in Victoria... In Victoria there aren't many wild mushrooms, and kangaroos seem to like them. Saffron milk caps fried on butter are just freaking amazing!!
Picking mushrooms containing
Psilocybin i.e. "magic mushrooms" are illegal here, and one can be charged under an archaic law for attempted manslaughter (unsure of any actual cases, but that is the commonly held belief) if one is caught supplying them, which is pretty ridiculous as they cannot possibly kill someone. What someone does when on them is another matter. They are good medicine for some and too intense for many. There has been a lot of research on their positive effects for
depression, cluster and migraine headaches in more enlightened countries.
I am positive that they cured mine when I was 16. I used to get headaches so badly as a teenager, after a fall at 13 where I had insomnia and lost memory for at least 2 weeks, to the extent where I was positive I had a brain tumour. A massive dose of them and I never had those headaches again. I found this information out at an ethnobotanical conference in 2007, held in Victoria. There are tons of mushrooms in Victoria, both psychoactive and edible. The key is knowing the seasons and growing conditions for each species :)