At this rate, soon VPNs won't be useful at all because the clearnet all around the world will be unusable. If you're not accessing onion services or I2P eepsites, you just won't get anything useful from the internet.
So looks like we won't be having an Australia VPN location for awhile,
Australia is quietly introducing 'unprecedented' age checks for search engines like Google
Australians will soon be subjected to mandatory age checks across the internet landscape, in what has been described as a huge and unprecedented change.
Search engines are next in line for the same controversial age-assurance technology behind the teen social media ban, and other parts of the internet are likely to follow suit.
At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users, in an effort to limit children's access to harmful content such as pornography.
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256