well i live in north qld and i'm kinda in the same boat, but i have sucessfully bred my goldfish once. I dont really know how it happened.. it just did.. maybe at that time it rained for a while, therefore being overcast and not much sunlight filtering in, but then the sun came out and heated the tank up a little from the sun. I dont know though, because i couldn't get them to breed this spring
Sorry i couldn't of been more help... maybe trying to cool your tank down for a while and then slowly bringing the temperature up (this might be a bit more trouble than its worth

) but hrmm... yesh... just kinda imitating the seasonal temperature change.