I'd deploy this more if the copy weren't aimed solely at Australians; which it shouldn't be as globalisation means if you're not an Australian, Australia is just a test-case for wherever you happen to be.
Too right. As an Aussie I've long since learned to stop gloating over the latest inanities out of Canada, the UK, and USA because grim experience has shown that it's just a matter of time before the remainder embrace whatever moronic "innovation" one of them implements. It's like the politicians in each country, being completely deaf to the actual wishes of their electorate, simply try and outdo the others' misguided policies in a perverse "keeping up with the Joneses" kind of dynamic.
This can and will happen everywhere.