I've often wondered what an Australian thinks when they go into one. I don't think there's a single menu item that is even distantly related to Australia.
Imagine if there was a 'texas bbq' chain in Australia that had deep fried hotdogs, cowboy hat fries or whatever other plausibly American thing you could think of. You'd go there to have a laugh at the sillyness of it all. That's what we do :)
Eat half a pound of butter and everyone freaks out.
You mean a corndog? Nothing inauthentic about that!
Imagine? Given what I saw in Australia, finding such a place is probably relatively easy and would make a fun vacation exercise.
In just about every major city there is a place called "New York Pizza" or something similar. There is an inverse relationship in these places between distance to actual New York and closeness of the pizza to real New York pizza. The New York Pizza in Boston is pretty close. The New York Pizza in Brisbane? I'm not sure but I think they used salami for pepperoni...
They did, though. Pitching "walkabout soup" as a "unique presentation of an Australian favorite". And, a pretty regrettable suggestion at one time that a Blooming Onion was "Ab-original". Something on a barbie they should have called prawns, "Brisbane Shrimp Saute", and more.
That said, Outback is definitely trying too hard.