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I agree. It's mostly only in schools with a tradition of being involved that students are told about it, a pity because it's an opportunity to actually understand the physics, rather than just memorise paragraphs of text, as is normally the concern of HSC students.

Actually, no team was taken because of political concerns. It was in Iran last year and Australia wasn't the only country who were reluctant to go (the US were also, but eventually attended). However, Aus still had an APhO (Asian Physics Olympiad) go to Shanghai even though it didn't go to IPhO.