effects of a failed Invasion of australia

Lets say the Japanese invaded Australia, realistically that's not going to go well for them so lets say that the Australian people successfully defeats the Japanese army and kicks them out of the country.

How would that event change Australian culture, politics and other aspects of its being to this day?
 
Central to the assessment of Australian war experience is the role of centrist social democracy and labourism in creating large capital in Australia; and labourism’s simultaneous conflict with socialists in the unions and the “empire” mentality of the small bourgeois and large farming capital. Here labourism needs to be read as both the ALP and the CPA who entered into an uneasy coalition to win the war and repress communism in the armed forces and unions.

Labourism has a serious lock on elements of the war myth historically including bringing them back from the Middle East, choccos, etc. An invasion is likely to give labourism a big boost. It will cripple independent communist developments in the docks and dockyards as the argued danger is greater. If the ALP misallocates resources to the war sector to a greater extent this means an even larger post war reaction by the working class. Such an industrial demand by the left unions will outpace ALP and CPA acquiescence. This means soldiers more than just working the coal mines for example.

The heightened class conflict will also see a greater action on the conservative front. The doctors will probably try it on as historically. So will the banks even though the ALP is trying to rationalise capital investment to maximise profit. I’d predict at least one fascist underground army per major state, just as after WWI.

Ming probably gets a magic carpet treatment at the apex of this class struggle around 1949. If he doesn’t naturally come to power expect that Mother and Uncle will work together to replace the prime minister and Governor General as required.

A stronger DLP, probably in NSW as well. Unless the coal strike blood is on Ming’s hands: in which case expect the development of a red army over time. Probably organised by ALP trade unionists. (CPA will follow line).

The 1950s and 1960s see the penury of reality, exacerbated by heightened spending on defence and crony capitalist investment into heavy industry, cars and planes more than historically.

The 1970s crack open like a can of shook up hot beer. Without the small change Ming doled our (catholic schools, free university scholarships and indentures) I expect heightened violence. Whether it involves guns depends on whether Labor or anti-Labor shot the miners in 1949.
 
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