Aaron, the brown cap, bright yellow gills and seemingly no partial veil remnant strongly suggest a species of Phylloporus. Also, the stems (in particular that of the lower of the two turned over mushrooms) seem to have caught some brown spores (the colour to be expected for Phylloporus). In some species of this genus the gills turn blue or blue-green when damaged. In the lower of the overturned mushrooms, there seems to be a spot of pale blue-green bruising on the gills (left edge of the cap, near the light brown eucalypt leaf). Perhaps this is where a finger or thumb pressed rather firmly as you turned the mushrooms over – or I may be imagining that colour! It is faint. If you see such mushrooms again, try running your fingernails over the gills. That’s what I did in this case (http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/phylloporus-sp-0062.html) and you see the damaged area in blue-green.
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