@PugJesus fair enough. We're near it, but the distances involved mean we're about as near it as New York is to Florida.
Australia itself is so big it spans several climate zones too.
The difference in land mass and weather patterns is part of things as well. This article has some cool maps where they map northern hemisphere cities at the equivalent latitude onto New Zealand - turns out my comment was misleading insofar as, as well as getting less heat we also get less snow than we would if we had more land mass.