There's a fact in the article discussing this exact point around relative rates of antimicrobial use by country:
> Australia ranks seventh-highest in the developed world for antimicrobial community prescribing rates. Australia’s hospital antimicrobial use is estimated to be nearly three times that of the European country with the lowest use, the Netherlands.
So we are top 10 but not the single worse offender, at least by this metric.
> Australia ranks seventh-highest in the developed world for antimicrobial community prescribing rates. Australia’s hospital antimicrobial use is estimated to be nearly three times that of the European country with the lowest use, the Netherlands.
So we are top 10 but not the single worse offender, at least by this metric.