I find Aus companies limiting; we don't seem to have many dividend champions.
You're right pierso, in Aus the options for such stocks are much more limited, and you have to work a bit harder to find them.
You have to apply less stringent selection criteria to get enough stocks (eg. with 5-10 year history rather than 25+ years).
Dividend policies here seem to focus on maintaining a specific payout ratio, which doesn't necessarily translate into absolute dividend growth each year.
In the US though they get excited by 3% yields, so we are fortunate here in that 5-7% grossed-up yields are more achievable at times for good quality stocks.
If you are planning to reside overseas then looking at US/Canada/UK stocks sounds like it may be a good way to go.