I suspect that Australia isn’t much different than here in that a large percentage of the population, especially in the cities, believes whatever it is told and will laugh uproariously when it is a comedian telling it. Comedians everywhere are very very good at spreading the propaganda that big government loving types feed them.
I have a feeling that people on remote cattle stations and other places in the Outback might have a different opinion.
This act is being done where he is a hit, in LA land