Women’s sports in the US are viewed with a contempt, at least on the internet, that they simply are not, in Australia…

Not just the US. Though I would not call it contempt, just disinterest. The media keeps shoving it down our throats, but really, no one cares. Not even women want to watch women play football (soccer) rather than men, as folks who lose to 15-year-old boys 7-0 aren't very entertaining to watch.

We have full female leagues over here, for all our major sports, and, for the most part, they’re actually pretty decent.

Unless they play against 15-year-old boys. I mean, through no fault of their own, of course. There's just biological differences.