not tyres, of course not!!!

Morning all. Just back in Melbourne briefly for some running repairs halfway through the 'Great Trip', and decided the tyres will need changing if I'm to have another 6 months of incident free driving. Whilst up north I met a few people who, after becoming frustrated with puncture after puncture, had put on Hancook Z59 and couldn't talk them up enough. If it was just one incident then I would have put it with all the other useful sometimes useless information, but this happened on several occassions.

Question. Are they any good? How much are they(standard 235/70-16)? Where do you get them down here? and finally why, if I'd never heard of them before would I encounter a number of separate stories/incidents?

Thanks if you can contribute to some or all of these questions and if you can't......thanks for having a read anyway.

Knackers