Why are cricket scores represented as wickets/runs in Australia as opposed to the more commonly used runs/wickets in other cricketing nations, and is this format unique to Australia?

When the first scoreboard was built in Australia about 1890 it had wickets before runs, therefore it become customary to say the score the same as it read on the scoreboard, like 2-78 instead of 78-2, since all scoreboards built after that were probably built with the same design its difficult to change a tradition that has lasted for generations.