Exactly the same, pharmacist will request to see your ID.

About time. Thankfully in Australia we can still get access to the ones containing psuedoephedrine, which works amazingly well.

Can’t believe it has taken this long to see the inefficacy of these.

The outside?

It's mate, but if I forget their name, it's 'old mate'

Except voting day in Australia is on a weekend, not during the week. And there are also pre polling centres, where if you plan to be away on vacation or working on voting day, you can go along to a pre poll centre and vote weeks in advance. Australia also has mail in and even telephone voting for those unable to visit these centres.

It can be, and it’s a valid point. But some countries do publicly fund their government broadcaster and have safeguards in place to maintain journalistic integrity. It can be done properly.

Australia is one: https://about.abc.net.au/who-we-are/the-abc-board/. The ABC regularly has fact checking articles for politicians on all sides and has exposed many a government scandal over the years.