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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Clanad's reference deals only with where animals are native, and so correctly omits Australia. That page seems to forget about Antarctica (mongooses are not found there either). But it doesn't say whether they've been introduced there.
I've not been able to find any mention of mongooses as an introduction to Australia -- perhaps surprising, as there have been so very many other foolish introductions there.
The Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage has a page:
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/fauna-of-australia/pubs/volume1b/35-ind.pdf
On this it says:
"It is interesting that neither mongooses nor ferrets have established wild populations in Australia."
I did find one vague suggestion that an introduction had failed.