One of the strange things our lab has run into in the last week and which I have seen zero coverage on outside of a single USDA Reddit thread:
If you're outside the US, are you able to download any research from the USDA's 'Treesearch' repository?
E.g., https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/29572
Every single PDF link for any file I've checked simply leads to a notification that "The request is blocked." So...is Australia blocked?