I was learning to fly (not in Australia) about the time that spinning was taken out of the syllabus and made optional. It was replaced by "slow flight awareness" pottering around right on the edge of the stall, horn blaring, keeping it in balance for a couple of hours from memory before you then did the fully developed stalls. People who wanted to do spinning went with the aeros instructor in the Chippy and did as as an aerobatic lesson.
Some interesting reading here:
An Evaluation of Stall/SpinAccidents in Canada 1999
http://www.richstowell.com/documents...a_TP13748E.pdf
In particular this part on Page 9 is relevant to this thread:
One feature that stands out in all except one of the 39 stall/spin accidents
examined is that knowing how to recover from the stall or spin was of no benefit to
the pilots in these circumstances. They stalled at altitudes so low that once the
stall developed, a serious accident was in progress.