The Australian Offensive...

MacCaulay

Banned
So I was at work and I had this odd brainstorm. It's a TV news bulletin. And it's of Australian M1 tanks and M113 armoured personnel carriers with soldiers on top riding past the camera as they head north "up the coast highway" into "Kintoland."

And apparently there have been rockets fired from this place, and they're going to invade it to take out the rockets but they know there's some armour in there: T-34/85s and BMP-1s. Older stuff that still might be dangerous if it's in the cities and is lucky.

And I was trying to figure this out. What did it mean? The nearest I could figure out is that it's sometime in the mid-90s or so, and there's an Aboriginal country on the continent of Australia that's at least sort of Communist. At least in side the Communist block.
They're not friends with Australia (the country), apparently, and aren't that well off economically though there's apparently a large population.

And I think that was the big change at the core of all this: there's a huge aboriginal population.

So...this is all completely unrealistic, but I thought I'd post it anyway. For shits and giggles. There was more, since I was bored I was fleshing out the names of the units and the "Kintesque" defense of their capital, but it's all a bit odd. I'm not one to make up countries out of whole cloth normally.

EDIT: I suppose the whole point of this ramble was what factors might have had to exist for there to be an independent or semi-autonomous Aboriginal state in Australia.
 
Any combination of...

Much higher average rainfall across the Australian landmass, making the interior and western side much more hospitable and fertile.

A landbridge between New Guinea and Australia. Prior to European contact, Aborigine technology levels were very low; perhaps greater contact between them and other cultures would have raised their overall tech levels.

Greater innate Aboriginal resistance to smallpox during/after first contact with Europeans, for whatever reason.

A more warlike Aborigine culture; hence this initial suggestion for your timeline's title: The Dreamtime Wars.
 

HJ Tulp

Donor
For a moment I was like "Damn Mac, have you gone senile? It's just the scenario of a exercise!" :D
 

MacCaulay

Banned
For a moment I was like "Damn Mac, have you gone senile? It's just the scenario of a exercise!" :D

It was a really odd idea, you know? :rolleyes:

I played with it mentally for a few hours, and by the end I'd pretty much left the rails of what our Australia was completely behind. I was plotting tactical RAAF A-10 airstrikes and things like that, and even thinking about how the Kintesque forces would defend their capitol. It was just an odd train of thought.

The nearest I can describe it is like some guy coming up with the 1982 Lebanon invasion out of the blue. It seemed a lot like that.
 

MacCaulay

Banned
Much higher average rainfall across the Australian landmass, making the interior and western side much more hospitable and fertile.

That would require flatter terrain, correct? Mountains tend to scrape precipitation away.

Greater innate Aboriginal resistance to smallpox during/after first contact with Europeans, for whatever reason.

A more warlike Aborigine culture; hence this initial suggestion for your timeline's title: The Dreamtime Wars.

I can't say it's not tempting. It'd be completely ASB, but it'd be fun.
 

HJ Tulp

Donor
Thinking about it some more....

How about the Netherlands taking over Arnhem Land in the early 1800s? After WW2 it becomes independent long before it's ready and it becomes a client state of a Communist Indonesia and thus by extension the USSR.
 
You have some seriously odd daydreams, Mac.

IIRC Australia is the flattest continent - not sure about Antartica - so I don't think that less mountains would increase precipitation.

Perhaps settlement in the north of Western Australia and the Kimberlies is much delayed, and the local Aboriginals discover the mineral wealth and declare independence? They'd probably end up being too rich for your scenario, though.
 

MacCaulay

Banned
You have some seriously odd daydreams, Mac.

At least this time it was actually a real island. You should ask Doctor What about the time a few months ago when I made up an entire Mediterranean island country from scratch, along with the history of it's car company, involvment in WWII, and 1974 war against Turkey. Ah, Ennisia and Reese Motor Company...that was a boring night at work...
 
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