2nd Australian state bans public displays of Nazi swastikas

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8. I agree. We can see a lot in hindsight that they couldn't see at the time...

We had Papua New Guinea as a buffer against the Japanese. I've seen the old fortifications around Port Moresby and walked a bit of the Kokoda Trail, and if that hadn't held we'd have been in a lot of trouble. There were plans to evacuate the top half of Australia (from Brisbane down) and defend the bottom half which was much more populated, but thankfully that never happened thanks to the US...

I think the US had a better idea of how things could turn out than Australia. Since we've been colonised we've had this terrible habit of seeing threats everywhere. Back in the very early days of settlement of the colony of Queensland they urged the British government to invade Fiji as they were worried Fiji might invade Queensland. The British weren't impressed with the incessant complaining from the colonies, and I think that carried over to WW2 where Britain cut us loose and the US became our new protector...