I feel for you Stu.... For starters: you race an Italian car
I recall saying there was a heck of a lot of PC: if one dares to suggest improvements to crappy photo's (equivalent to crayon drawings on your mum's fridge)... and effectively saying: I'm not your momma kid..there were "ooh dear" and "tut-tut's"
Happily Sugery, Engineering and Aviation, (to name a few professions ) look at the real ramifications of below par effort.
I've since discovered the opposite extreme... sycophantic responses to posts that should be top-shelf, but missed the mark. Emperor missing clothing sort of stuff...
But Aussies are a "weird mob". Just look at the people we allow to run the place and take 3-6 months of our salary, then give it to people/programs that otherwise you'd not give a red-cent to...
.... my point is not to have a swing at the pollies...but simply for people to think critically, no matter what "it" is, ask "is that resonable? ", always question, and call a spade a 'bleedin shovel.