Although I can't comment for Australia, the best advice I had was the day before I gave birth, and that was "expect to have problems". I had never thought that I'd have a problem, and when I did that advice kept me from feeling even worse (although a midwife did try to make me feel as bad as possible about it).

I would say, for me, a midwife pushing formula milk very, very hard on day 2 would have stopped me breastfeeding if I weren't so bloody minded about it (and knew I'd have the backup of the girls here once I got out of that... well, NHS hospital says it all really - oh and the constant reminders from my family that I'd previously said I'd wanted to BF for at least a year just to make me feel extra crap). Telling me to FF until I could see a LC (which would be on day six if I were lucky) was not helpful at all, especially when all she did was say that DS was doing well now so no need for her to be around after all.

And pictures of babies who decide to come off the nipple early so are sprayed with milk over their face and hair would help, I think it looks so cute, shame I never took a pic of Liebling like that! Oh well, I bet he'll be like that soon enough as he's just having a growth spurt now. But it just shows you that breastfeeding can be fun too.