Australians are just generally boring people. The only thing good they do are reality shows, like Master Chef and Lego Masters Australia - think about it, how many great painters, poets, philosophers, novelists or what have you are Australian? Not many.
Err, so Jake Hayes' lack of appeal as a skateboarder somehow proves an entire multi-ethnic nation of 30 million people with 54.3% tertiary educated (higher than the US as % of population, and Switzerland and France and Denmark if you are counting...according to OECD and higher than the OECD average of 47%) lacks artistic and intellectual achievement. A frequent reader of Discourse and Society are you? Thesis Eleven? Philosophical Review? Been scouring the author bylines for affiliation and nationality? And thought, wow, not many Australians here! How boring! Like Jake Hayes!
Typical!
Been hitting up the bienale? The local contemporary art gallery and checking off nationalities of artists as you go? Not many Australians here, Hayes!
Keeping an eye on the music press and cross referencing the nationality against genre against notoriety are you? Hang on, there are barely any Australians at this northern Ohio folk fest. Hayes!
Australia is in the southern hemisphere. Asia is the neighborhood. Not every one wants the approval of the northern hemisphere. Not everything travels that far. Most things don't have to. You might not also look very hard.
But then again Jake Hayes did travel...and his Dickies part was boring, prejudice justified.