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It's Simon & Schuster in both countries. Typically in Australia the international publishers operate as subsidiaries with separate rights.
Given that S&S's own site wouldn't sell the book to me -- it let me try, but then failed with an error about credit card country codes -- it seems probable to me that the Australian subsidiary just isn't interested in doing ebooks.
This is based on experience with Australian business in general. Crazily conservative, usually has to be dragged kicking and screaming into whatever the newish thing is, and usually they wait until they're being killed by outside competitors before they even notice there's anything going on. At which point they whine to government looking for protection and only change their ways if that isn't forthcoming. Which it often is...
(Sorry, cynical but trained into it rather than innate.)
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