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Silent night, the stars are bright All is calm, in Thy sight Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Babe so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace Silent night, holy night All is calm with no fight Light shall beam from Thy face Brining peace to all with grace...

Whilst not actually a part of the plan, it simply makes for a useful shorthand, the US did make a number of grants and loans to countries outside Europe in the Middle East and Asia. Australia didn't suffer any great damage domestically during WWII but it did spend a lot of money funding their...

The Oceanic giant is quite a prosperous nation nowadays, but I imagine: what if there was more initial/earlier immigration instead of mostly prisoners? May it have ended like a kind of USA of Oceania, with more economic power, influence and population than its parent nation (UK)? Or are the...

For whatever reason, the CPC choose to invade Vietnam much earlier after Vietnam refuses to ally/effectively become a satellite. Instead of an ANZUS triggered war with North Vietnam, what if because of the aforementioned reason- the PLA took their place? Would the red 'domino effect' have much...

The year was 1880, and notorious bushranger Ned Kelly had an ambitious plan. He and his gang were holed up in the town of Glenrowan, Victoria, and they knew there would be a police train after them. So they came up with a plan: derail the train, shoot any survivors dead, then go to Benalla and...

How plausible is the scenario of one or more Asian powers establishing colonies in Australia before 1788?

I'm curious as to how one might go about creating a Spanish Australia? What POD would you need? How would it be administrated? Could you get an influx of other Catholics (Irish, Italians, etc.) to bolster its population? Would they intermix with the Aboriginals? That sort of thing. I do know...

Your challenge is relatively straightforward: have the Māori establish permanent settlements in Australia.

Due to a multitude of factors surrounding their environment, australian aborigines never domesticated any fauna or flora outside of dingoes (not that this degrades their cultures in anyway), but the goal of this thread to have at least one tribe domesticate any species of animal, whether spider...

France like in real life loses the Seven Years War and in this alternate timeline the French colony of Louisiana is ceded to Britain not Spain. All the French Canadians (Both Acadiens and Quebecois) are exiled from North America thus resulting in the French Canadians heading to France for refuge...

How big can Australia realistically get? The first POD would probably be New Zealand and Fiji joining Australia in 1901. I’m sure it’s possible for Papua New Guinea and East Timor to join. What other Polynesian islands could Australia gain?

Today I learned that in 1933 there was a referendum in Western Australia about secession from the rest of the Australian federation. The secession side of the debate won with about 66% of the vote. However, the Australian federal government argued that secession was not permitted by the...

Comrades! What if the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) were electorally successful? Here we are not positing socialising the means and tools of production under workers control and the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. Nor are we positing forming government by any mode. We are...

I came across this while doing research for my TL. Namely that there's been a theory around since the 1780s that the Portuguese got to Australia before the French. The scenario I envisaged is a sort of scuffle breaking out when the French start claiming Australia (I really like the idea of the...

For reasons totally unconnected to a TL that I am totally not currently writing...*eyes dart back and forth*, I am looking into the various proposed states of Australia, as listed here. Even though some of those proposals date back to pre-1900, I put the thread here as Australia became...

What sort of political scenario would be necessary in order for the peaceful unification of the British colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, West Australia, and Queensland into the Dominion of Australia in 1901 to be butterflied away? What sort of ramifications would...

To lay down the scenario, Britain has been reduced to having it's Royal Navy destroyed for the most part, and is now a vassal state of Germany. Germany was able to win this conflict by allying with Russia, annexing Austria-Bohemia, etc, and focus its efforts on Western Europe. After one war in...

Chapter 1: Jolly Good Company To many walking past him down the streets of London that chilly December evening in 1969 would've thought nothing of a rather nervous looking man in the crowd. The man in question was a gentlemen by the name of Alan Peglar, who in railway terms was famed for being...

In a scenario where the Polynesians colonized Australia around the same time that New Zealand was colonized historically by the Polynesians (so around 1200-1300), what would a Polynesian Australia look like? How would Polynesians deal with the conditions of Australia (granted, they'd mostly stay...

The life of Juan Fernández was an exciting one. Born in Cartagena, Murcia between 1528 and 1530. Being born in the major port of Castile in the Mediterranean he promptly grew an interest in sailing. He was promoted to captain and major pilot sometime in the 1550's and in the 1560's he was sent...