Australia has an interesting cultural psyche, our history is short but quite unstable.
Essentially we've been barely above the line for ceasing to function as a country, simultaneously isolated but under imminent perceived threat which has created this ruthlessly authoritarian streak.
Always remember we were a convict colony, and also a nation of jailers.
There's an alternate history that in the 1920's and 30's we became a vassal state of Japan and theoretically would have found ourselves on the axis side in WW2.
Which is always interesting to me since your government used up your best men in Europe, Crete, North Africa, & the Middle East and just assumed Japan would just take you over if they got serious about it.
Australia has an interesting cultural psyche, our history is short but quite unstable. Essentially we've been barely above the line for ceasing to function as a country, simultaneously isolated but under imminent perceived threat which has created this ruthlessly authoritarian streak. Always remember we were a convict colony, and also a nation of jailers. There's an alternate history that in the 1920's and 30's we became a vassal state of Japan and theoretically would have found ourselves on the axis side in WW2.
Which is always interesting to me since your government used up your best men in Europe, Crete, North Africa, & the Middle East and just assumed Japan would just take you over if they got serious about it.