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How can you make Aus and NZ united? I think the most likely time was with the unification of Australia at the turn of the century. What would a unified Aus and NZ look like today? Would Australian politics be less conservative (it seems to me that NZ is to Aus as Canada is to US, more liberal...

Have Rhodesia (OTL Zimbabwe) survive until 2005. However, all the neighbouring countries must have their current political climates (eg. South Africa must be ruled by blacks and have undergone a peaceful revolution a decade earlier). Rhodesia must be majority black, but ruled by whites (although...

In 1923 there was a referendum in Southern Rhodesia (today's Zimbabwe) on whether to join the Union of SA, or opt for self-government. The 20 000 white settlers opted for the latter. What if they had voted to join South Africa. Rhodesia would probably have had between five and eight seats in the...

Is it possible to have Australia be like OTL SA, where the Aborigines are in the majority, and OZ has just emerged from a period of racial domination from white Australians over black Australians. How do you have Aborigines in the majority (no genocide, disease?), and how do you have a smaller...

Apparently when Bill Clinton was deciding on a VP, John Kerry was on his shortlist (Kerry would have been a better choice from the point of view of a better regional balance, being from the North, while Gore was also a Southerner like Clinton). What if Clinton had gone for Kerry over Gore? What...

I watched Starship Troopers on TV the other night again (still want to read the book). What PoD would be needed to result in a world-wide federation, based on facism, with no racial and religious bias as portrayed in the book and movie?. I was thinking the rise of a right wing movement in...

Is there anyway that civil war in South Africa could have been prevented? Perhaps the South African military doesn't rebel in 1993, or maybe the multi-party negotiations of 1992 and 1993 succeed? I also believe if Nelson Mandela hadn't been assasinated by right-wing terrorists in 1993, things...

Is there anyway that Germany and the Soviet Union could have been truly allied in World War II, or would Hitler's hatred of Slavs made the premise stillborn? A Moscow-Berlin-Tokyo Axis I think would have been close to invincible in Europe, and would have been pretty strong in the Pacific as...

Nelson Mandela contracted tuberculosis while in prison in OTL, but recovered successfully from it. What if complications had arisen and he had died in say, 1985. Would the apartheid government have covered the fact up, or would they have announced it, and suffered all kinds of accusations of...

What if the 9/11 terrorist attacks had not happened. Would Bush have been a lame-duck president? Would he still have looked for an excuse to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam? Would the American economy be in the poor shape its in now? Would he have won a second term?