Tony Vargas
Legend
Seems unlikely, or it'd be an even more sparsely-populated continent, but I've never been there.So all Australians are murderous psychopaths?
But, I've found that things people post about being universal tendencies are often regional tendencies. (I started noticing myself doing it, first.) In my area, Champions! got a lot of play, especially in the 80s & 90s, presumably because the guys who wrote it were from around here. At some cons there'd be as many Champions! games as D&D. On the east coast, not so much. The mechanics of Champions! made it fairly easy to avoid killing, and the build system rewarded you for establishing character traits, "Code Against Killing" was a notorious example, very appropriate to the superhero genre.
That attitude bled back into D&D. It's not hard, at all, to get a less fatality-riddled D&D game going around here - especially if you can avoid being penalized for doing non-lethal damage.