Answer:
Yes, maybe compare capitals or large cities. You still want to have enough information findable, but Australia and England are both very large, and I consider it too broad.
The answer to this question is that the techniques used in the excerpt
are 1, simile (wrapped up like garbage) and 3, sensory imagery (the
smell of too old potato peels). The combination of the two here makes
for very powerful writing.
Well they did it to make the country better