Don't underestimate those Australians- they made some remarkably prescient decisions in the '70s and '80s including science funding, of which output this is just one example.
Incidentally, this is the same thrust of upcoming cancer treatments: persuade the body's defense system to get involved and it's game over whether the target is plaques of unwanted material, rogue cells or whatever.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
