... Circinus is a nearby spiral galaxy only 4 degrees below the Galactic plane. ... Jones et al. (1996, in prep.) and Koribalski Whiteoak (1996) only recently mapped Circinus with several configurations of the ATCA; a few preliminary results are presented here. ... The elongated central disk (length about 5 arcmin) indicates a bar, and the central `hole' is caused by HI absorption against the bright central region of Circinus. ... Figure 3 : Halpha emission from the nuclear region of the Circinus galaxy...