Curious if you have a paediatrician

I’m in Australia and wait lists for a Paed in my state is a minimum of 18 months for private (if they have open books at all) and god knows for public. So most kids just see a regular GP. But I see so many posts about people taking their kids to a paediatrician for just regular stuff like the flu when here it’s more speacialist stuff. So it made me curious about who has a paed and who just takes their kids to the gp.