[stirlo]

It's been highlighted below but the reason this is posted here and up voted is that Google choose to 404 any requests coming from non Australian IP addresses.

Hardly seems to be the thing you do when you're acting above board...

[skissane]

It turns out there are two URLs for this, one which only works for Australian IPs, one which works for everybody.

Australia-only URL: https://about.google/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/

Global URL: https://about.google/intl/ALL_au/google-in-australia/an-open...

Alias which redirects to Global URL: http://g.co/australia-letter

However, when I first posted this, Google was showing a message to people using Google Search in Australia, directing them to the Australia-only URL not the global one. It appears since then they've changed the popup to use the global URL.

At first I (and others) worried there may be something intentional and under-handed in this, now I realise it is probably just some sort of Google-internal stupidity. Hanlon's razor strikes again

[dang]

Changed now. Thanks!