I never found Australia to have particularly strict law enforcement in general. However, they have been taking covid very seriously and have had correspondingly low infection rates.
I think geography is doing the bulk of the lifting. Being on a sparsely populated island helps a whole lot.
so when lockdowns come out we (especially in the west) just loved going into lockdown and dishing shit on those that flouted the rules. its a weird dichotomy that we're very easy going and freedom loving yet also love rules and enforcing them.
I will criticise the government and their laws, be skeptical, be very vocal about my privacy rights etc.
But when it comes to covid, the restrictions make sense, and I agree with the goal for which they are deployed to meet, which is reduce spread, hospitalisation, and death.
So do I like rules? No. Do I want to stop the spread? Yes. It's that simple.