People elsewhere do not recognize how important Australia is in terms of "what happens next"
There would be differences,
but the monsters behind all this will certainly copy+paste.
Both the "war at the battlefield" and the propaganda war are important here. Especially if they are gonna actually punish those in charge. It is super easy to misrepresent that abroad.
That is the biggest threat all this holds. There are too many bureaucrats in the USA ready to exterminate 'non-woke' unvaxxed. Many would obey such an order by Biden within hours.