Many Australians have quite an odd attitude to patriotism. On one hand, they can be very scathing of their country. In front of an international audience, they will criticize their country without any real sense of personal shame that they come from the country they are criticizing. It is almost as if they are afraid the international audience will think that Australia is superior in any way so they need to cut their own country down to avoid being accused of supremacist thinking.