WHV bank account check?

The Australian government site says that you have to have around $5000 in your account when you apply for a working holiday visa. A friend of mine went over on a WHV in January and they didn't check or even ask him about the money. What experiences have people had with this recently?

Check the wording, but I believe it's proof of funds OR proof of onward travel.

I know this is old but I'd be interested to learn about people's experiences upon entering Australia with a WHV. I'm going there on a WHV in May (flights booked, visa purchased) but because I'll have been living in the UK for six weeks before that with no job I'm going to not have enough money.

Here are my options:

-Enter Aus with my measly funds and hope they either don't check/I can smile nice and look respectable and they'll let me in anyways. I'll probably have just about $2500-3000 with no return ticket.

-Try to beg some temp funds from my family just to put in my account while I go through immigration. (I have a poor relationship with my family so I'd rather not do this unless absolutely necessary.)

-Purchase a cheap onward flight to somewhere in Asia and hope that counts as "onward travel" and because I have that, they won't check my bank balances too harshly.

I have no credit score at all so I can't get a CC for 'available funds.' Tip, kids. If you're going to take off traveling at 17 make sure you still stay on the records somehow so when you surface at 22 you have a credit score and can apply for things like car loans and whatnot.