It has become very apparent to me over the years of running this website that one of the main problems facing you Antipodeans when it comes to professional aviation is that you have become too insular. You have come to believe that you are somehow special or so different from everywhere else on earth that you are a special case
As a loyal Australian, having flown professionally in Oz and now the UK, I find this insulting. But having now flown off the rock, sadly, IMHO, it is often true.
BB