Does this check out?
Australia is a mysterious place. The Guardian loves including Australian stories on the main site with very little clue as to what country they actually relate to.
Whenever I find myself reading a story where nothing seems quite familiar, everything seems oddly skewed, with familiar place names ('Perth') but unfamiliar events related to them, and a strange mixture of UK things but with US spellings ("the Labor Party"?) and scandals about politicians I've never heard of, it always turns out it's actually about Australia. Gets still more confusing when they refer to things as "Victorian" yet they don't seem to be that old, or when I see NSW and mistake it for NSFW.
Edit - not surprising they shot "The Matrix" movies there. Like it's _almost_ the real world, but something's a bit "off".
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