Nonsense, my nephew was here for eight years, he is Thai and worked as a nurse, my friend is English and works as a hairdresser none of them is Australian.
I don't know what you call animal abuse, but one person in my Thai family keeps her cats locked up in a small cage and only let out ones a day, but puts them on a leash. I find it disgusting, but what would I know? I am just a Farang.