Lost the lighting on my dash

Temporary ground - perhaps from one of those screws that hold the center clock or tach in your dash - in you pic it looks to me like good place, and run it to any good chassis ground, or right to the battery negative terminal.

I am headed down under on sunday, back to work in PNG via Brisbane! Of course no where near your neck of the woods in Western Aus.

Good luck.

Hey, if you wanna stop by and help fix my Dart I'll chill a block of stubbies and through some snags on the barbie!