This thread is nuts. I'm not Australian, but live in Perth now, have lived in Scotland, Yorkshire, London, California and Spain, the worst racism I've seen and heard was in Yorkshire by far. I've been lucky not experience any sexism since moving to Australia, can't say that was same in any of the other places, but at same time I'm in a far more senior role, so that could be a factor.
I absolutely love the heat though, and Western Australia (for me!), has perfect climate, very similar to San Diego I found, although the winters are maybe colder here. If I had a complaint, I'd maybe say winters could be shorter and summers a touch longer. It's been mostly high 20's, low 30's, but it's such a dry heat, and we get the lovely breeze in it doesn't feel as hot as over east, even when we do get up to high 30's. Even on a 40 degree day, which we've only had a couple so far this year feels ok at the beach.
We are spread out and Perth is super long (I think maybe the longest city in world), and I live about 30k out of CBD, but trains are great, they run every 5 mins during rush hour, all day parking at train station is $2, and because there's the free way all way out, Uber's home after a night out are only about $40, 20 mins, so easy to get around. In the 10 years I've been here, the city has really developed, the river front is beautiful, full of rooftop bars and great restaurants now, it feels really like it's thriving.
I don't even feel like we're that isolated, it's only 16 hours now for flight to London, that's what it use to take me to get to LA / San Francisco from London not that long ago, but also have so many amazing places in Asia that are super close (not a fan of Bali though). I personally love Margaret River though, of all the places I've visited, it's my favourite and hope to move there after retirement. It's so green, beautiful forest, river, beaches and one of the most bio diverse places on the planet.
In terms of the wildlife, Im out in the bush twice a day every day with my dogs, we do see snakes, but very rarely, and they are way more scared of us than we are of them, they slither of pretty quickly and I've had the dogs snake trained so they know not to approach so never been remotely an issue. On the other hand I still love seeing the kangaroos most mornings, the occasional wombat, and an even more occasional black emu which I feel really lucky about.
The treatment of Aboriginal people is really sad and the generational trauma means there are no easy fixes, and I don't know what can / should be done to help equalise. I was disappointed with the outcome of the Voice referendum, and did vote yes, but it was a completely shit campaign by the yes team and they should have really come with some kind of concrete proposal, they managed to blow their initial high lead.