Challenge: The Big Dominions

[Strategos' Risk]

Was an Australasia ever in the cards? I'm just interested in the idea because I keep hearing the name (probably from the Draka series) and it doesn't correspond to an OTL nation.

Upon closer inspection, it's present in the HOI 2 Armageddon expansion, as well as in the Kaiserreich mod.

 

[Emperor-of-New-Zealand]

Was an Australasia ever in the cards? I'm just interested in the idea because I keep hearing the name (probably from the Draka series) and it doesn't correspond to an OTL nation.

'Australasia' as a single political entity is impossible without a 19th Century POD. By the time NZ got responsible government in the 1870s, there wasn't much of a chance for them to join Oz.

In the 1830s and earlier we were under the jurisdiction of the Governor of New South Wales, but the appointment of Busby sealed NZ's fate as it's own entity IMO. He had the 1835 Declaration of Independence of NZ, which prevented foreign powers from entroaching (an overly useless document, mind), and then he and Hobson came up with the Treaty of Waitangi, making NZ a colony separate from NSW in 1840.

 

[Strategos' Risk]

Fair enough, but where the did the concept of Australasia (super-Australia) come from, exactly?

Also, can someone compare and contrast Australia/NZ's relationship to that of Canada/Newfoundland's relations pre-1949? Because it seems quite similar to me. Big hunks of land next to an island of sheep.