Citrix opens its third cloud region, this time in Australia

"Co-incidence much that it’ll run in Azure, and Microsoft just scored better security creds down under?"

Yes. It's rather more likely related to the vast majority of their enterprise customers moving to Azure for IaaS than any competing option.

More likely it was a gubmint account (taxpayer funds) that sent them downunder

Finally, now that the notion of deploying VDIs from the cloud can no longer be considered remotely secure for handling anything more valuable than a browser session that just checks the weather.

Not to mention, no one with any idea whatsoever wanting Citrix deployments anymore.

But it will still take a long time to tell the gubmint buyers to use their common sense, rather than extensive, sexy, costly reports that ignore and obfuscate the threat landscape and make the risk incalculable.