the Reserve Bank of Australia has been laying the foundation for a transition to CBDCs for a while now, first by pointing out, correctly i believe, that Australians are using less and less cash, then noting a general interest in cryptocurrencies, and finally noting that crypto falls short of being "money" in the traditional sense...

of course while ignoring the fact that a "stable fiat currency" is a fiction if it's also inflating.

there is, at the very least, been some retail adoption of crypto in parts of the country, North Queensland in particular, with BCH being the bitcoin of choice.