Not at all sure the Australian workers are driving the new willingness to get assertive towards wolf warrior China. True, voting in Australia is mandatory, which means political parties don't have to expend vast energy just to get people to vote, but the "workers" (those telling "" used above throughout) are not outraged as American workers are at the loss of manufacturing jobs due to China becoming the world factory, there has been little groundswell or mass mobilisation against China. In fact the pressure to take a stand has come from the security agencies, and from the numerically small but politically powerful farmer/rancher lobby, who have never had much problem with British or American investors buying up vast acreages or intensive dairy processing facilities, but protest loudly when they are then onsold to Chinese investors. Often, those new Chinese owners, seeking long term secure investments safe from predatory state rent seeking in China, actually sink further capital into upgrading the properties they buy, employing a lot of the locals. But that is not the nationalist story that gets the headlines, which all suggest our fabled "little Aussie battler" bush block soldier settler farmer cocky (all Australianisms untranslatable) is up against sinister Chinese big money, all unfair. So Australia is at last standing firm on China, and at last the Five Eyes have swung in to support, but this all came about through elites, a unity of wealthy ranchers and security wonks.