It looks like we'll be returning from our cruise starting with a flight from Sydney, on Virgin Australia (mid-December).
Our flight will be to HKG, where we change airlines.
(We may be trying to change our air travel home, depending upon the HKG situation and, of course, whatever other choices are available for awards travel. We'll have someone helping to monitor this while we are on our cruise.)

What is the current lounge situation in Sydney? Recommendations, if there are choices?
We'll be Business Class, and we also have Amex Plat & Priority Pass.

We prefer to get to airports a bit early. We are trying to avoid as much travel stress as we can; there is enough that could happen out of our control...

This will be our first visit to Australia, so we are totally unfamiliar with any of this.
This will also be our first trip with Virgin Australia.
(About 5+ years ago, we did take Virgin coast to coast USA, but I'm forgetting just which Virgin that was. We do remember that we found the experience, in coach, to be very pleasant, but that was also before we had started using awards to fly J or F, so we admit to having become a bit spoiled since then.)

Many thanks!

GC