Gallus's five years in Melbourne were spent in various unskilled jobs, a common experience of many Central European intellectuals and professional people. The lack of recognition of his qualifications and the dearth of prehistory taught in Australian universities limited his options.
John Mulvaney was the first archaeologist in Australia to obtain a lectureship when he was appointed in 1953 in the Department of History at the
University of Melbourne. Gallus took up a teaching position in the Victorian Education Department where he remained in one capacity or another until he retired. He pursued his archaeological interests through the
Archaeological Society of Victoria becoming its president and then Honorary Member, and attracted a devoted and enthusiastic group of amateurs, physicists, geologists, and even local professional archaeologists. In June 1983 the AASV dedicated a special volume of
The Artefactto Gallus. In 1963, Gallus became an Associate of
Current Anthropology, in whose pages he was a frequent commentator on such various and varied topics as genetics, human migration, artefact typology, and symbolic systems. Three years later, in 1966, he was elected a Member of the (then)
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies from which he obtained some research funds. In his Australian research, Gallus had two main themes; the Pleistocene spread of humankind and examination of material remains as evidence of population movements. He was particularly interested in demonstrating his belief in a very early, Pleistocene occupation of Australia, through excavations first at
Koonalda Cave on the
Nullarbor Plain (Wright 1971) and secondly at Keilor on the terraces of the
Maribyrnong River. His views were controversial, and although his claims for the antiquity of 75–100,000 year occupation are still unproven, both sites did demonstrate aboriginal presence in the Pleistocene with Koonalda's rock art and mining occurring between 14,000 and 24,000 BP, while in 1971,
Jim Bowler helped prove the 36,000 to the 45,000-year-old presence of flaked implements and extinct
megafauna at Keilor. Gallus was prominent in the Hungarian diaspora community in Melbourne, becoming the first Melbourne President of the
Australian Hungarian Association. In 1965 he published an article entitled 'Hungarian history: an analysis in the Hungarian language Australian Hungarian Association Calendar, and often talked of writing a complete cultural, social and political history of his native land although this never eventuated. Sandor Gallus died on 29 December 1996 in Melbourne and in early January 1997 a memorial service was held at the Hungarian Community Centre outside Melbourne, where the service was read - as Gallus would probably have wished - in Latin. and his ashes were placed in the crypt of the church. ==Published works==