australia

The 1990 Federal Election The 1990 election saw the ALP lose office on a 14 seat swing ending seven years of Labor government under Bob Hawke, and seeing the Liberal/National Coalition return to office under Andrew Peacock. The vast majority of the Coalition’s seat gains were in Peacock’s home...

I have been watching a couple of very good you tube video lectures by hypohystericalhistory Specifically his videos on the Milne bay, Kokoda Track and Buna / Gona battles are very well made and I recommend them. Anyway the Buna / Gona battles were quite horrific (by the already horrific WW2...

WI Australia had become a republic in 1975?

In 1786, a Dutch-born British merchant named William Bolts was granted a contract by King Gustav III of Sweden to establish a colony in Australia. This plan was shelved because Sweden went to war against Russia the following year, and the colony was never established. What if the Russian war...

Could it ever be possible that the Australian Aboriginals could develop and run advanced governments, akin to those developed in Precolumbian America? Or is Australia simply too resource-poor for such a feat? It's a huge island, with an incredibly diverse set of ecosystems, and a lot of it is...

IOTL Australia has about 25 million, with a 1900 POD, is there any non-ASB scenario Australia could reach 100 million by modern day?

Set up first. First Victoria doesn't exist so the British empire eventually goes to Ernest Augustus who adopts a colonialist-Protestant agenda. During the 1830's relations with the US deteriorate and the US takes actions to destabilize Canada. While at risk of losing North America the UK manages...

Aside from the well-known periodic visits by Buginese trepangers, the controversial Kilwa coin and Western Austronesian traders in the Torres Strait, there doesn’t seem to have been much contact between the Old World and Australia. Would it have been possible for contact to be more intense that...

In the early 1990’s the Federation International Automobile’s (FIA) global touring car formula Group A was coming to an end, with spiraling costs and the failure of the World Touring Car Championship to last more then one season saw the auto-racing world to look to alternatives. The Australian...

Challenge: Bend history in such a way that you cram as many first-level administrative divisions into Australia as possible. You can use any POD after first human settlement of Sahul. Good Luck!

WI: Holden Motors was never purchased by GM? Holden is an Australian automobile importer and former manufacturer of vehicles. It was independent until 1931 when it was purchased by General Motors and became a subsidiary of that company. Often marketed as Australia's home grown car company...

I know there were various attempts to colonise Australia by the Dutch along Western Australia, but they basically all ended in failure. But what would happen if one or of them stuck? What would be the results of them actually founding a long-lasting colony on Australian soil?

Chapter I: The Pirate “The land was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam” – William Dampier (A New Voyage Around The World) **1** October 1687 The English Privateer Cygnet pulled into what would in another time be called King Sound Australia for careening, becoming the...

Found this map of Australia online while doing research for an online class. First, it looks like Beurleau [OOC: ATL french corruption of Boorloo] is part of the Australian Commonwealth rather then an often-contested separate country [1], and is thus a british country. Second, it looks like...

On the island of Papua, the indigenous population raised small and skinny oceanic pigs (Sus Papuenis) as their primary livestock for thousands of years. This practice of pig farming would remain highly sacred, as pigs were not only a source of meat but were also used for rituals and symbols of...

The Dutch explored the western part of Australia in OTL and found it pretty uninmpressive and didn't do anything with it. What if Abel Tasman instead of ending up in New Zeeland maps the southeastern part of Australia, the coast of modern day Victoria. The pleasant climate and huge natural...

Van Riebeeck stayed in the Cape for a few weeks in I believe 1647 in OTL which made him an advocate of building a resupply station there. What if he was shipwrecked in King George Sound in Western Australia instead? (modern day Albany). It's close to the Brouwer route and could've served as a...

You can cheat here by the way. Probably should have put this in Pre-1900. How can you make it so that the thylacine is still alive (whether it be only in captivity, only in Tasmania or still roaming in mainland Australia) but the dingo is extinct (or at least as threatened as possible), or at...

To the East, to the Death, to the Struggle 1st September, 1914 With war not even a month ago, the coordination of the French and British forces was important. Together in Paris were the men who would kickstart the Allied war effort, or most of it rather: - Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener...

With a PoD sometime in the last century, how bad - as in how authoritarian, aggressively racist, environmentally fucked, what have you - can Australia be, either by 2020 or at any point in the 20th Century compared with the OTL counterpoint time frame? What PoD works best, in terms of derailing...