The Hunter was an alternative to your Avon Sabres, not the Mirage IIIOs (for which the UK alternative was the Lightning, which never had the legs for the RAAF, and would have been a poor choice).
Sabres/Meteors. Sabres weren't on offer before Korea, to you or anyone else.
And your Meteors did really rather well in the GA role, as I recall, and guys like George Hale proved that it was a better air-to-air aeroplane than some gave it credit for, though not in the high level 'over the Yalu' environment.
Spits? Tell your nonsense to Caldwell, Truscott et al. The Spit VIII in particular was a very successful aircraft in Aussie service. The P-40's record pales by comparison, while the Mustang (useful post War) was unsuited to fighter versus agile fighter combat. It did well in the long range escort role when the opposition was poor, or consisted of lumbering 109Gs, but was very handicapped by its violent and unpredictable departure characteristics and by the fact that gun tracking was so poor. (Go look at the SETP evaluation of the Mustang vs Thunderbolt vs Corsair vs Hellcat before you go repeating all the enthusiast nonsense about the P-51).
F-111 a success for the Aussie taxpayer? God save them from what you'd classify as a procurement failure then!
But then you're showing yourself to be just another typical whingeing Aussie (how amazing that you have the brass neck to accuse us of whingeing....!) with the usual anti-Brit chip on the shoulder. Still sore that your great grand-dad was transported for stealing that sheep, Bruce?
PS: I don't give a to$$ about Cricket (it's no longer played by or watched by gentlemen, and they seem to do it in coloured pyjamas now) but eagerly await your response on the rugby front.....