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I cleared customs at Sydney airport last Sunday and I certainly didn't see any question on the card about pornography.
This is complete nonsense though. If I hadn't already abandoned the Labor Party due to their mandatory internet filtering policy, I would have done so for this outrage.
All you need to register a domain name in .com.au or .net.au is an ABN - a business tax registration number. You are able to do so as a sole trader, trading under your own name. The actual policy doesn't even require an ABN but the practice among registrars is to require one as it allows them to automate their systems.
The normal turnaround time for registering one of these names is a matter of seconds.
I don't know where you get the idea that *they* pick one of three submitted for you. That's just nonsense.
By 'US entry', I presume you mean like a .com? Well they take seconds to register as well. You can even register one through an Australian registrar.
If you actually mean a .us name, which is the actual US country code, then you need to be able to demonstrate a 'nexus' (such as a trading relationship) with the United States. And there have been recent examples of .us names being deleted where this nexus information was shown to be false.
A friend of mine was working as a teacher in a high school in Sydney way back in the late 90s - the net filtering software they used back then was blocking access to the NSW Department of Education website because it deemed to mention 'sex education'. Glad to see things have moved on in the last decade.