What would a fascist Australia look like?

In a scenario where a much more severe economic depression during the 1920s-1930s results in a revolution similar to the March on Rome, leading to the overthrow of the Australian government in favour of a fascist regime, what would this fascist Australia look like? How would the government function? Would it be a fully totalitarian regime, separate from the British Commonwealth, or would it be a somewhat democratic regime that retains links to the Commonwealth, but holds fraudulent elections to give an appearance of democracy?
 
I don't know much about Australia in that period.
What would be the background? Widespread financial deprivation? Racial tensions?
Also fascism goes hand in hand with nationalism: how developed was the idea of
a separate Australian identity at the time?
 
You could do worse that checking out these guys which looks me like facism with a love affair with the British Royal family
New Guard member.jpeg

...this was their official uniform. Let that sink in.
 

SpookyBoy

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I'm going to completely derail this and bring up the time I had an idea for an independent fascist Queensland under the leadership of Joh Bjelke-Petersen (inspired by him actually threatening to secede once) but I had know idea how to actually bring it about lol
 
Australia would b the one totalitarian regime the rest of the planet blocks internet access to, instead of having a national firewall due to the behavior of Australians on other websites going by OTL.
 
The Australian treatment of Aboriginals and Asians would be much worse than it was IOTL. Forced expulsions of Asian Australians, sterilization programs for Aboriginal men and forced marriages with Whites for Aboriginal women OR the establishment of a "reservation system" to finalize the separation between Whites and Aboriginals (it could go both ways). In terms of foreign policy they'd sympathize with segregationists in South Africa and the US, as well as European fascist states.

That's what I can easily imagine anyway
 
forced marriages with Whites for Aboriginal women

I'm not sure this would fly. Even in OTL the government tried to eliminate aboriginal culture in half caste children, who were sent to be educated to boarding schools run by the clergy and prohibited to keep their customs and language.

Even then they weren't considered equals in the end, so I have doubts full-blooded aboriginal women could be accepted as marriage partners under a fascist regime.
 
I could see a modern day southern hemisphere version of the Axis made of of Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia, the Portuguese colonies, and either Argentina or Chile (though getting both would be difficult) and maybe also Indonesia.
 
In Germany in 1933, the Nazis first concentrated on arresting communists.

And I think this is one aspect of fascism, that economic declines are viewed as temptations to "go communist," rather than as legitimate problems to be solved. Or, perhaps only secondarily as problems to be (clumsily) solved.
 

Redcoat

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I'm going to completely derail this and bring up the time I had an idea for an independent fascist Queensland under the leadership of Joh Bjelke-Petersen (inspired by him actually threatening to secede once) but I had know idea how to actually bring it about lol
Wat. Well you could have a worse great depression, worse WW1 for Australia (re:Gallipoli) better yet with the UK losing anyways, fascism rises up in Queensland, etc.
 
Ned Kelly, Vampire Hunter.

Ooh, good guess and actually better than what it really is.

It's the Zodiac Killer, specifically the costume he wore when he attacked a couple at Lake Beryessa (IIRC). An online sleuth speculated that he was inspired by a photograph of an Australian riot police officer in costume.
 
I could see a modern day southern hemisphere version of the Axis made of of Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia, the Portuguese colonies, and either Argentina or Chile (though getting both would be difficult) and maybe also Indonesia.

And it would be known as the League of the Southern Cross
 
A fascist Australia would look like this:

cities-in-australia.jpg


:p

Anyway, if the australofascists take power sometime during the 1930's (assuming they can), then i expect them to be mostly neutral towards Japan's expansionism in the Pacific; Thus, no Battle of Coral Sea.
 
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