AH Challenge: Have Australia and New Zealand refuse to aid Britain.

With a POD set before either the start of WW1 or WW2, try to find a way to keep Canada loyal to the UK, while for some reason or another Australia and NZ decide NOT to aid their colonial ruler. You may also include if India or South Africa stay loyal as well.
 
you could have the Australian Republican Association becoming more popular in the late 19th century (due to pro-white autralia policies and anti- royal navy taxations) so that by the time of federation, Australia sees itself as all but a republic within the empire. When WW1 comes around, they feel that the conflict is of no concern to them and stay out.

WW2 though is a different thing. Fear of a japanese invasion meant that Australia would probably join the Allies no matter what. They might however wait until japan had expanded into the pacific before doing so.
 
you could have the Australian Republican Association becoming more popular in the late 19th century (due to pro-white autralia policies and anti- royal navy taxations) so that by the time of federation, Australia sees itself as all but a republic within the empire. When WW1 comes around, they feel that the conflict is of no concern to them and stay out.

WW2 though is a different thing. Fear of a japanese invasion meant that Australia would probably join the Allies no matter what. They might however wait until japan had expanded into the pacific before doing so.
Ah, but do you think NZ would still aid or is their any plausible way of getting them involved?
 
Ah, but do you think NZ would still aid or is their any plausible way of getting them involved?

Can't think of one short of NZ ratifying the Australian Constituion and becoming a state and so staying out in the scenario I described before.

The problem in both case is that, at the time, AU and NZ automaticaly had declared war on the centrla powers after the UK did so. That mean that you either need to have the 2 out of the empire prior to 1914 or to have such an anti-imperial sentiment in australasia that the british will not request anything.
 
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