I installed the app (I'm not from Australia) and now it's saying I need to update it and obviously I can't but now it's stopping me from playing?
This sucks I think it's really unfair that it's available in Australia
I have it on Android and haven't had any problems updating/downloading data. I'm not sure what could be preventing that - bad internet connection comes to mind, or something else wrong. Unfortunately, uninstalling and redownloading the game files might be your best bet.