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1939-1940: Robert Menzies (United Australia-Country Coalition)
1940-1945: Robert Menzies (United Australia)
1940 (National Government with Country and National Labor) def. John Curtin (Labor)
1945-1951: Ben Chifley (Labor)
1945 (Majority) def. Robert Menzies (United Australia), Arthur Fadden (Country), Jack Lang (National Labor)
1950 (United Front with Farmers') def. Robert Menzies (United Australia), Thomas Playford IV (Liberal and Country League), Jack Miles (Communist)
1951-1975: B. A. Santamaria (Labor)
1954 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country), H. V. Evatt (Workers' League)
1955 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country)
1959 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country)
1964 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country), Charles Adermann (Independent Country)
1968 (United Front with Farmers') def. Joh Bjelke-Petersen (Liberal-Country), Charles Adermann (Country)
1972 (United Front with Farmers') def. Joh Bjelke-Petersen (National), Ian Sinclair (Country)
Australia loyally followed the mother country into the Second World War, and while Australian soldiers fought in Europe, the Pacific, Asia and the abortive Panama Landings, Australia herself emerged from the country unoccupied. The American forces were concentrated upon the campaign to defeat Japan by the time forces in the Pacific were committed, and contented themselves with sinking the British and Australian navies and embargoing the two British Pacific Dominions. When Britain surrendered, Ming could no longer put off a general election and was punished for defeat by a Labor landslide. Australia was drawn inexorably into the American sphere of influence. This was affirmed in 1950 which saw the Country Party split into a traditionalist chunk and an American style Farmer-Labor Party, and the birth of the United Front.
Chifley's death in office led to a bloody power struggle that ended with the victory of Catholic social conservative B.A. Santamaria. He purged the most strident left-wingers in the party, who joined the Communists in Opposition. Santamaria joined with the newborn Liberal-Country Party to officially crown the young Princess Elizabeth as Queen of Australia, her father having died in India. At the 1954 election, Labor only clung to power with Farmers' support, as the Workers' League surged. Santamaria promptly banned the Workers' League and so began Santamaria's long reign.
Santamaria has implemented American Industrial Government, but has bowed to an extremely conservative social order, and while his counterparts in other nations of the Westintern have introduced social reforms, Santamaria has if anything pushed Australia backwards, towing the orthodox line of the Sao Paolo Vatican. His grip on power is autocratic, and was helped along by the tired and ineffectual opposition of the Playford years. The Liberal-Country Party has now reformed into the National Party and Santamaria has had to relearn how to play the game now that he is faced by the most potent opposition in decades.
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5_Scarlet_Australia
1939-1940: Robert Menzies (United Australia-Country Coalition)
1940-1945: Robert Menzies (United Australia)
1940 (National Government with Country and National Labor) def. John Curtin (Labor)
1945-1951: Ben Chifley (Labor)
1945 (Majority) def. Robert Menzies (United Australia), Arthur Fadden (Country), Jack Lang (National Labor)
1950 (United Front with Farmers') def. Robert Menzies (United Australia), Thomas Playford IV (Liberal and Country League), Jack Miles (Communist)
1951-1975: B. A. Santamaria (Labor)
1954 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country), H. V. Evatt (Workers' League)
1955 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country)
1959 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country)
1964 (United Front with Farmers') def. Thomas Playford IV (Liberal-Country), Charles Adermann (Independent Country)
1968 (United Front with Farmers') def. Joh Bjelke-Petersen (Liberal-Country), Charles Adermann (Country)
1972 (United Front with Farmers') def. Joh Bjelke-Petersen (National), Ian Sinclair (Country)
Australia loyally followed the mother country into the Second World War, and while Australian soldiers fought in Europe, the Pacific, Asia and the abortive Panama Landings, Australia herself emerged from the country unoccupied. The American forces were concentrated upon the campaign to defeat Japan by the time forces in the Pacific were committed, and contented themselves with sinking the British and Australian navies and embargoing the two British Pacific Dominions. When Britain surrendered, Ming could no longer put off a general election and was punished for defeat by a Labor landslide. Australia was drawn inexorably into the American sphere of influence. This was affirmed in 1950 which saw the Country Party split into a traditionalist chunk and an American style Farmer-Labor Party, and the birth of the United Front.
Chifley's death in office led to a bloody power struggle that ended with the victory of Catholic social conservative B.A. Santamaria. He purged the most strident left-wingers in the party, who joined the Communists in Opposition. Santamaria joined with the newborn Liberal-Country Party to officially crown the young Princess Elizabeth as Queen of Australia, her father having died in India. At the 1954 election, Labor only clung to power with Farmers' support, as the Workers' League surged. Santamaria promptly banned the Workers' League and so began Santamaria's long reign.
Santamaria has implemented American Industrial Government, but has bowed to an extremely conservative social order, and while his counterparts in other nations of the Westintern have introduced social reforms, Santamaria has if anything pushed Australia backwards, towing the orthodox line of the Sao Paolo Vatican. His grip on power is autocratic, and was helped along by the tired and ineffectual opposition of the Playford years. The Liberal-Country Party has now reformed into the National Party and Santamaria has had to relearn how to play the game now that he is faced by the most potent opposition in decades.
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2_Crimson_Canada_and_Newfoundland
3_Orange_Japan
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