Hardest countries to get in with Australian passport

According to the index, Australian passport holders are granted visa-free entry to 169 countries. That's just eight less than the first-place German passport, yet that consigns us to eighth place. We're pipped at the post by passport holders of 23 other nations, including the US, Britain, most countries of Western Europe, Singapore, South Korea and our trans-Tasman brethren. That's no reason for the Aussie passport holder to feel deprived, but there are some countries that make it next to impossible to get in.