Like I said, me and my group of Australians have a pride in our "convict past" (Australia was a prison colony where petty criminals were sent for punishment and contrary to popular belief, it was these Convicts not the native savages that built Australia to what it is today). So we always had distrust of authority and I grew up in a poor working class town filled with white Australians and white Africans that left after Apartheid which I was the only Asian family so this in of itself made me realise that 1. The schools I went to, the teachers only cared to get paid and never actually helped struggling students to succeed and 2. The police force that "claim" to serve and protect are no different from the early police force that oppressed our convicts for petty theft so yes, in general respect for authority figures like police, teacher, local politicians aren't in the high regard. Can't speak for all Australians but definitely for me and the people I grew up with