The same applies to furniture. The average age of a car in Australia is 8 years. Beauty products and cosmetics are very expensive and not extensively used by Australian women. If the foreign wife of an Australian wants to send money to her home country to support relatives or parents she will be seen as someone who only married an Australian for his money. It is a social stigma.
Australian summers can be hot and humid.
Day shade temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius for several weeks are normal and sometimes night temperatures can be as high as 30 degrees Celsius. People are generally very friendly and helpful and find foreigners very interesting. They help foreigners to settle. A marriage is a partnership of equals. It is unacceptable for Australian men to treat their wife badly or beat her.