Just caught up on this thread.

Truly great work from Haggis and a commendation in recognising the value in appealing to a global pinball market and being transparent and honest with their progress.

What a fantastic thread that finally presents the true Australian pinball scene demographics on pinside.

1. National Measurement Act 1960 (Cth) section 4:

Objects and application of Act

(1) The objects of this Act are:

(a) to establish a national system of units and standards of measurement of physical quantities; and

(b) to provide for the uniform use of those uniform units and standards of measurement throughout Australia; and

(c) to coordinate the operation of the national system of measurement; and

(d) to bring about the use of the metric system of measurement in Australia as the sole system of measurement; and

(e) to provide for a national system of trade measurement;

2. National Trade Measurement Regulations (Cth) 2009 section 4.11:

(1) The required measurement marking must be:

(e) in a form in which units of measurement under the metric system are ordinarily written in the English language.

The Australian tendency to speak plainly and directly to each other regardless of one's status can often be a challenge for other cultures to....fathom.
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Is it wrong that while reading that I started humming the intro music to Beverly Hills Cop?

Homepin was on borrowed time on pinside from the beginning when he originally chose to align himself with a small section of unrepresentative swill within the Australian pinball scene.

Blatantly false reviews posted on pinside at the time about TBAG ("one step away from perfection!") and hyperbolic propaganda praising the Homepin brand from the AussieArcade lapdogs were only going to maintain the facade until the first machine landed in the Northern Hemisphere and the real feedback started being posted.

The CEO of Maccas at the time was an Australian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Bell_(businessman)

No doubt completely unrelated to the nutritional value of McDonalds but he subsequently ended up dying of colon cancer.

This shot was taken in a location called the Breakaways which is about 20 miles outside of an opal mining town called Coober Pedy with desert for 500 miles in every direction.
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It should look familiar if you have seen Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

You underestimate the number of Aussie pinball collectors who have abandoned an online presence (or prefer to sit incognito in the background) because of the longstanding poor track record that our domestic forums have in pushing their own self serving top down narratives.