Australia must be one of the few countries where logged true instrument flight time refers only to time in IMC, which in theory is a mark of flying experience. Even that however, is diluted by the fact the regs allow monitoring of the automatic pilot in IMC to be counted as "true" IMC instrument flight time.
IMC flight on autopilot logged as instrument flight time is nothing more than legalised cheating. The problem in Australia is that some operators demand a minimum of (say) 100 hours instrument flight time as part of minimum hiring qualifications. In turn, this leads to falsifying of log book hours, as in general weather is CAVOK for much of Australia making true hands on instrument flight time (unless under the hood) difficult to find.