Yeah, I just didn't mention it, I always look at things from the Qld perspective.
Prelude to War part 2.
After the silencing of the guns in France, a new world disorder shook the world and troubled Australia. The liberation of northern New Guinea, formerly a German colony, by the joint forces of Australia, left serious rifts in relationships between the nations. New South Wales, seriously balloning in population and looking for expansion, wanted joint occupation, for all nations to work together so everyone had access to the gold mines and resources in the area. There was mass opposition, namely from Queensland who was the ideal nation to annex the island geographically and from the southern nations, wanting to curtail the growing NSW industrial giant. Queensland officially annexed Papua in 1919 and much to NSW's dismay, the Japanese held their claim on their new Pacific possessions, some of which were promised to NSW and Vic by Britain. As NSW fumed over the loss of possible Oceanic dominance and millions of migrants poured into the coastal cities from Europe, the stage was set for the most deadly ingredient.
The Great Depression has been notorious, not just for it's poverty, but for the rise of dictators out of the bitterness and hatred that spawned. NSW was no exception. The slums of the poor, the thousands of impoverished ex-soldiers, the need for work, hope and glory created a breeding pool. As more and more people flooded the cities, namely Newcastle and Sydney, people began looking for another way of life since the British one had failed them. Communists began appearing and gained significant attention, then the League of National Security appeared. The LNS, led by a group of ex-military rightists, used the Red Scare tactic like the Nazis in Germany, promised change, better lives and most importantly of all, a greater NSW that would dominate Australia. The governments of Australia could do weak to do anything or were too preoccupied with their own troubles to be involved in NSW. The scare tactics worked (namely after the Newcastle Riot of 1934) and by 1935 the LNS was in clear control of the country, after some reshuffling within the party Thomas Blamey was on top, declaring himself undisputed Prime Minister and Leader of NSW. Imprisoning communists and political opponents, Blamey re-engaged the NSW industrial base and created the greatest war machine on the continent. He even renamed the nation New Australia, in advance of his new march to continental domination. As tank designs from Germany came in, air bombers made for their wrath on Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne, Blamey waited for the next world war, one in which Australia won't be excluded.