Australia lost Sydney, Darwin, and Pine Ridge but miraculously the missiles intended for Melbourne fell short and the one that landed in Brisbane was a dud! They are still exactly where they fell and no one cares disturb them. Australia has emerged quickly as a world leader along with New Zealand which survived the war intact. A strict non-nuclear policy is in place but standards of living here are among the highest in the world with Wollagong as one of the top universities in the world now (alongside UNAM, University of Sao Paulo, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Indian Institute of Technology, and University of the Witwatersrand).