Exactly, the same shade of grey is black somewhere and white somewhere else. Hopefully Australian Govt's views on Bitcoin will become prevalent in the world.

It doesn't matter what the governments say what bitcoin is. Bitcoin is what it is and it can't be changed, it is a decentralized cryptocurrency  in Australia, Japan , USA etc

Yeah, those governments can say anything what they want, totally true. And it is a good news for Australian then, which its government admit bitcoin as money. For Japan, maybe thats because of Mt.Gox incident.
We can ignore what government say about bitcoin, because we will using it, no matter what they say. But their statement could affect people's mind who dont have any idea about bitcoin before, so it will make them to stay away from bitcoin.

It is what it is and will continue to operate in those countries that might not like it, tbere is not a whole lot they can do really to stop it.  I think in the end all countries will eventually have no choice but to accept it, the power is with the people and if the people shout loud enough and long enough they will be heard.

People who know how the world works know Japan is really a vassal state to America. Economically if they oppose Bitcoin it's cause they have been told to by their superiors.

Bitcoin is still in its infancy as far as mainstream adoption goes. Countries & huge organisations still don't know what to do with/about it.

Give it time & as acceptance/adoption grows they won't have any choice but to bounce off each other & follow suit i.e. all begin to acknowledge bitcoin.

True, those superiors could be german,french,japanese etc It doesn't matter what they are or where they come from. But something is clear, they want to  harm bitcoin with the use of regulators

The critical difference here is that the Australian comments come from the Australian senate. It is indicative of the need to change laws to reflect the reality of crypto currency. In particular in the Australian case coming to its senses regarding the GST, before Bitcoin is used a way to legally avoid the GST. The Japanese case is a Judge's interpretation of current Japanese law, Big difference.

Japanese should realize that it's not the fault of Bitcoin that people lost money in that scandal, there have been a lot more scandals with fiat and they didn't blame fiat for that, Bitcoin is a currency and it will be used to do good and bad. I don't know why is it that when people lose fiat due to theft or scam they blame criminals but when they lose bitcoins for same reasons, it's the fault of Bitcoin.