australia

Since Australia is regularly a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest, I wondered, what if it was part of the EU. What would be needed to make it part of the EU and what would the implications of Australias membership be both on the EU and Australia but also on the world? To make this...

There are fourteen countries in Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Tonga, Marshall Islands, Palau, Nauru, and Tuvalu. There are nine dependencies or territories: French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Guam, Northern Mariana...

In 1975 just before Indonesia invaded there was a political party formed by businessman Hnerique Pereira in East Timor who wished for the country to join Australia, but this plan was closed down when Australia rejected the idea. Australia also intervened in East Timor in 1999. Going off either...

The POD is the Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic Empire decisively defeats Britain and the Coalition forces, changing the course of history forever. With Britain forced to sign a humiliating and harsh peace treaty, the colonies declare themselves independent from the British Empire and adopt the...

This straddles the line of post and pre 1900 but the POD is before so it goes here I figure. By the early 20th century Australia settled on a policy that restricted immigration to whites only, deported remaining migrant workers, instituted protectionist trade policies, and allowed for strong...

First of all, this is literally my first post here on alternatehistory, so sorry in advance for any wrong vocabulary. I did a read trough the terminology page on the wiki, but i might still get stuff wrong. The title isn't a rethorical question. In the ATL, I want to keep an alternate...

The island country of Nauru, located in Oceania, is infamous for its rags-to-riches-to-rags-again story. In the late 90s, the country was going belly up until it managed to find a few lifelines in the new millenium. Around the early 2000s, 2 sources of money primarily keeping Nauru afloat were...

<menacing synthesiser music> <a cube of fours made up of fours rotates supplanted by historic video, film and even black and white film footage vaguely referencing the voice over> The Amphetamine and Heroin epidemics The problems in the Towers Biker and Yugoslav bombings Burning children on a...

Welcome to the thread, the goal here is to try and outline the real history of pre colonial Australia and to discuss potential avenues for alternative history and the challenges there-in. Before we begin in earnest I would like to note I have read the Lands of Red & gold and enjoyed it, but that...

A New Labor On the 30th of April 1968, a landbreaking leadership spill was decided for the Australian Labor Party with the left-wing candidate, Jim Cairns winning by a margin of only 1 ballot with a final 36-34 against previous party leader, Gough Whitlam. Now many things contributed to the...

2004. The 2004 Election resulted in Labor Gaining 11 seats with a very slim majority and the Liberal/National Losing 11 seats resulting in a loss. 2007. Soon after the 2004 election the newly elected 43 year old Mark Latham stepped down temporally due to pancreatitis and handed over the...

In our timeline in the 1770s France had laid claim to the western portion of "New Holland" but the French Revolution kiboshed any plans on placing a colony like the British did in 1788. But what if the French in the Bourbon Restoration had decided to plant a colony in the west before Britain...

During the French Revolution Louis XVI and his family attempted to escape to the fairly young French colony of Australie, (barely 70 thousand people strong). But during his escape one of the shipwrights identified him and his family, and alerted the Authorities, eventually leading to his...

Axis win WW2 Nazis conquer or puppetize Mainland Europe, Middle east, Central Asia, Africa and Japan puppetize China, Mongolia, Russian Far east due to US absolute neutrality i.e., no lend lease, no embargo. India,Oceania,French IndoChina and Dutch East Indies develop a siege mentality and join...

Warsaw - April 27, 1937 In a ceremony before a crowd of thousands in the National Army Stadium, influential Romani leader Janusz Kwiek is crowned "King of the Gypsies" by the Archbishop of Warsaw, taking the royal name of Janos I and announcing his intention to establish a homeland for the...

I was wondering, would be war be possible ? (ASSUMING THE USSR DOESN'T SIDE WITH TITO) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17985185 If war does indeed happen, what would be the consequences afterwards? I know there were still tensions between the remnants of the almost headless...

With any pod after 1918, how can we have relations breakdown between Australia and New Zealand to the point where both countries are at war with each other in the late 30's or early 40's? Part of the challenge is that neither country had and actually fascist movement so are there any...

Similarly to the last thread this is a scenario I made into a video I feel comfortable with but could be of interest here...

The first thread got derailed by modern politics so I'm hoping that the second attempt will last longer. Basically, how can we get Australasia, New Guinea, and Polynesia united under an Orwellian, totalitarian government with a big-brother leader who may or maynot exist by the year 1984? The...

In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian state is named Oceania (presumably because it's a transatlantic empire). Sometime times when I hear Oceania however, I tend to think of the actual continent. Starting in 1900, how can we get Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Polynesian...