Over 30 years of working overseas, I’ve noticed that Australian pilots have held a reputation for being tin pot bush lawyers of the lowest order. Always trying to be clever and yet always failing.
This thread pretty much confirms the prejudices held by the rest of the world.
So, a far more interesting question is :
Is this our recently acquired national trait or have we been trained by a dysfunctional regulatory authority to behave like this? Either way, it’s bloody sad. Nobody was this loopy 40 years ago.