In reply to John Cook.

Have you spoken to Cloudflare about this? I have no idea why any requests would be routed outside of Aussie considering Cloudflare have edge locations in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.

I am in NZ and do sysadmin for around 100 country-specific sites, and we have zero issues with Cloudflare routing in any territory. I use Argo and APO for the higher value sites and it’s even faster than WP Rocket, Redis and Varnish.