Plausibility Check: The Dutch give Indonesia to Australia around WW2?

The idea has popped up in both Hearts of Iron 4 and the old Aurora Australis timeline, so it's made me think. How possible is it that the Netherlands would offer to let a more independent Australia protect the East Indies for them in WW2 and/or sell them to Australia?
 
The Dutch were never going to sell them, and the Australians were never going to want them.

I mean, the closest I can imagine is that we end up with something akin to what happened with Denmark, where the government officially surrenders (as I believe the Dutch government nearly did at one point) and their colonies just get occupied by Commonwealth forces, at the very least to prevent Germany from exploiting them. That isn't to say though that there aren't scenarios where the Dutch East Indies becomes a protectorate of Japan, a possibility that would certainly be far more attractive then their occupation of Tonkin and later all of French Indochina, but that would set off alarms in both London and Washington rather quickly in a way the Indochina venture didn't. That would also end up putting Japan in a far better position in terms of creating their "defensive line" in the Pacific, but conversely American and Commonwealth forces in the region would almost certainly be on heightened alert.

But ah, I can't really see Australia doing anything more then providing troops to establish a Commonwealth protectorate over the Dutch East Indies.
 
I doubt the Netherlands had the amount of control over Indonesia as the French had over Indochina that they could just simply allow the Australians to take over. I doubt the populace would agree, and there was a lot of populace. The Australians would have to occupy, and they don't have the numbers for it. Nor do the British at that point.

The Australians also couldn't have done much better defending Indonesia than The Netherlands did against Japan. They would just be stretching their forces thin, endangering New Guinea.

Plus, it would mean the absence of the Dutch navy, although they didn't stand a chance it would make the job for the Japanese more easy.
 
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