The romance and excitement of flying has been well and truly eradicated from the travelling experience in Australia. I don't know whether I'm going to pay for luggage, buy a meal, get entertainment or be 'allowed' to sit in an exit row. (Depends on the bundle of rights I bought) If I do get a meal, it will come in a cardboard box which probably would taste as good if not better than the meal. Hasn't the airline world heard of coffee as opposed to lukewarm, dishwater? And that's all after the underwhelming experience of strolling through our terminals being gouged for all you have. Apart from actually getting from A to B there is little to nothing to enjoy about air travel in Australia. Even the lounges are 'low cost'. (i.e. maximum profit)
Coupled with our infrastructure problems (2nd airports decades late, 3rd or 4th runways delayed, the current airspace and OneSky palaver) I'd say Australia has made a pretty good mess of it. It's the cleanest third-world country in the World.