J.F. Archibald's will stipulated that the artists must be residents of 'Australasia'. Does this mean artists from New Zealand and the Pacific can enter?

For the first fifteen years of the Archibald Prize, the competition was advertised in New Zealand newspapers and several entries were submitted by artists resident in New Zealand. New Zealand artists continued to enter until at least the late 1960s. It was the condition that Archibald entrants pay for all freight, to and from the Gallery, coupled with the Commonwealth Government's tariff on importing works of art that saw the end of New Zealand entrants, rather than a change in the entry conditions for "Australasian" residents. The Australian artist Mary Edwards (a.k.a. Mary Edwell Burke) moved to Fiji after her involvement in the failed lawsuit to revoke the awarding of the 1943 Archibald Prize to William Dobell's "Portrait of an artist (Joshua Smith)". She continued to submit work to the Archibald Prize after moving to Fiji and was exhibited several times.