Devon,
Ooh, a geography question! Prepare for the long answer. Australia is weird.
Apparently we live roughly just as far south as Mobile Alabama is north. (Ironically, just like Alabama, South Australians have an accent, more like the British or New Zealanders as the state had free settlers).
However we are much like Canada, as most of the population lives on the edge of the continent as it gets hotter further north or central you travel.
Unlike most of North America, crossing the continental divide is an anticlimax. Vegetation doesn’t change much east to west but does north to south.
Without a mountain range to stop clouds and dump rain, you might think we are a very hot dry continent, and generally many cities actually do go on water restrictions. El Niño plays a big part, so currently the east coast cities have been struggling with floods. So it’s a country of extremes with dust storms that block out the sun to cyclones that run up and down the coast in the search for caravan parks followed by bush fires.
Here in SA, most of our summer (1 Dec - 29 Feb) hot weather swoops down from the deserts around Alice Springs and temperatures can reach 45c. Winter (1Jun - 31 Aug.) here is generally sloppy & wet (enough to grow moss on roofs) and we get close to, but never reach 0c.
After finishing writing this, I thought maybe someone’s asked this question before, and found the answer to Devon’s question.
And as we’ve been to the BAGRS national convention, I’d have to say it’s probably accurate.
just having some fun under the rule 
