Sorry. I don't write tone very well. I meant for it to sound whimsical. I have read the thread, but I suppose I tend to sail over the unbelievable bits, like the Australian aero-engine industry without sufficient customers, or engineers. I think there were about 9 Austalian aircraft engineers in the '30s, and Wackett was the one who stayed in Australia. W.S Shackleton was one who went to England and worked at Beardmore. He wasn't very keen. And you know, you spend imaginary government money as though it existed, when, at times, it was very tight.
I'll tactfully not comment on the first few sentences as we'll only wind each other up.
Re not having an aero engine industry even the countries that were established in the field by the middle 1920s started from nothing or adapting engines built for other purposes. I suspect that you know far more about the state of the British aero industry in August 1914 than I do. I know it had the benefit of a World War, but look at the progress it had made between then and the middle of the 1920s.
Re the Government money. All I was doing was having Australia spend the same proportion of its wealth on defence as the UK was. The UK was spending less than 3% of its national income on defence until the middle of the 1930s. I wrote the thread so that the personnel per capita of the Australian Defence Force was the same per capita as the British Armed forces of the era. (There is potential for better prepared Canada, New Zealand and South Africa threads based upon them spending the same proportion of their wealth as the UK too).
It was heavily skewed towards the RAN and RAAF, which I thought was justifiable because Australia maintained a very small regular army in peacetime but a large volunteer reserve army. I didn't do a post on the Australian Army because as usual I became hooked on new threads first and because I'd spent all the available money on the RAN and RAAF.
In the case of the RAAF I thought that up to 1934 I hadn't been that excessive. The IIRC 15 squadrons (including 12 CAF) wasn't that much. It's about comparable with Belgium and the Netherlands. Where I think that I went overboard was the expansion schemes after 1934. Though, even then it matched what the RAF was doing per capita. I was going to finish the RAAF of with a post called "Mobilisation" about the RAAF from September 1939 to December 1941. That was partially because I started to spend time on other treads, but also extrapolating what I had done so far produced a "telephone number" air force that was far larger than the maximum wartime strength of the OTL RAAF. To maintain it they would have had to cut back the wartime expansion of the Australian Army considerably. However, if they had an air force that large the Japanese would not have got so far and as a result they wouldn't need an army of 15-odd divisions.