You mean you didn't know who they were. I'm sure plenty of people don't know anything about Australia.

How good does a host's National team have to be? If we qualify for 2010 then you'd think we'd have a good enough reputation to get it over Qatar.

USA in 94
Korea/Japan 2002
South Africa 2010

Host nation doesn't have to be "good". FIFA uses the World Cup to boost the sport's profile in those nations.

Is our profile 'too boosted' then?

Having said that, the WC in Australia would surely/hopefully have a trickle down effect to the Pacific nations.