Our average Joe’s character are more like the conservative American South, not the liberal American North (except for the ones who live in affluent areas of Australia’s state capitals).
I’ve often had the thought that our Aussie cousins are the only other people, at least among western countries, who truly understand the term, “rugged individualism.” It faded from British life after WWII, disappearing with the stiff upper lip at the introduction of socialist policies. Pastoral Europe never had it, or maybe the Swiss did or do.