Here in the Far Northern New South Wales on the east coast of Australia we are blessed with a multitude of SW stations, mostly from Asian countries to our north.
A lot of Indonesian stations many with advertising, Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese and Korean and of course mainland China which is the source of many signals mainly aimed at local audiences I believe.
However our main strong English language daytime stations are the excellent programming of Radio New Zealand International broadcasting to the Pacific, a strong signal even in the outback during the day, and China Drive CRI from Bejing in English, a very strong day and nightime signal with very good English speaking anouncers with programming designed to give an outlook on Chinese views and lifestyles.
Often when travelling in the large outback areas of Western Queensland, West Australia and the Northern Territory we switch our Pioneer truck radio to SW and listen to these stations as MW and FM stations are sparse and signals are not available during the day.
Most of Australia's MW and multitude of FM stations are based on the populated coastal areas and the hinterlands.
2WEB "Outback radio" is a community station based in far western NSW transmitting over an area of 130,000 Sq Kilometers on 585 khz MW and 5 slaved FM repeaters at various NSW western towns howvever once outside this signal area very little else is heard on MW or FM during the day.
Radio Australia was once a lifeline signal in the vast Outback areas of Australia however our short sighted LNP government chose to shut it down eliminating good news and weather services to our Pacific Island neighbours and Australians not able to receive radio during daytime hours, ie outlying properties and small townships in remote areas.
This has affected us due to not receiving news and severe weather or flood conditions when travelling in more remote regions without using the VKS737 HF outback travellers radio network or expensive satellite phone calls to get information.
My favorite SW rigs in my shack are an older Icom IC 765 and IC-761 via an 80 meter horizontal loop at 60-70 feet.
I find a fairly crowded 49, 31, 25 meter band at night and the 19 and 25 meter band also daytime, however most of these stations are in languages I can't understand although still make for interesting listening especially Asian pop music.
The halcyon days of SW broadcasting for English language stations is long gone although the odd American funded Evangelist stations still reach our shores.
The closure of RSA, Radio Australia, Radio Canada Int, VOA, Radio Netherlands, SRI, TWR, RSI, HCJB, etc etc is sadly missed and although can be streamed is no use in remote rural areas without using satellite dishes, ie when travelling (although we do have a Sat dish on our off road caravan-read travel trailer for USA readers).
My travel rigs are a Kenwood TS-480SAT and an Icom IC-7200 and night signals in a no RFI remote environment make for good listening although the 22,19 and 16 meter band work well during daylight hours.
Band conditions have been fairly poor as most will know recently, and its the high powered transmitters that beat the conditions however once in a while I still strike a new and interesting lower powered African or South American signal.