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Points of Divergence : Australia
Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Australia.
Australia is both a continent and a country, the only country to cover an entire continent and the only continent to be covered by one country. It is best known for its vast uninhabitable deserts, the hostile environment in most of the continent, its strange creatures, and its isolation from the rest of the world. In fact, it is so isolated, that it wasn't colonized until the late eighteenth century. It has quite a bit of AH potential, such as earlier/later discovery, colonization by a country other than Britain, etc.
Prehistory
For Want of A Yam - Discussion on Australian native plants that could have potentially become the basis of a native Australian agriculture (and later leads to the rise of agricultural civilizations on the continent). Started by Jared, this became the basis for his highly ambitious and increasingly famous project, Lands of Red and Gold.
Discussion/TL about Australian aboriginies inventing agriculture
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Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Discussion about various possible ancient discoveries of Australia
Discussion on a Polynesian culture Australia
Discussion on Indian sailors discovering Australia
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Early Modern history
Discussion on Japan discovering and colonizing Australia
Earliest possible European colonisation of Australia
Discussion on the Dutch colonizing Australia
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18th and 19th century
Australia cut off after the Third Fleet
Discussion about Australia becoming a great power
WI the British exiled Napoleon to Australia ?
Challenge: With a 19th century POD, turn Australia gradually into a fully independent republic (1)
Challenge: With a 19th century POD, turn Australia gradually into a fully independent republic (2)
Discussion on a Jewish homeland in Australia - One of the many proposed “Alternate Israels”.
Delaying the self-control of Australian colonies over immigration
WI: An Australian analogue of OTL Mormonism ?
Challenge: An Australian Isandlwana
Challenge: Much more populous Tasmania (primarily via colonization)
An Australasian Federation of Australia and New Zealand
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20th century
Canada, Australia and New Zealand staying with Britain ?
Plausibility check: A Federation of Australia and New Zealand after 1901
What would an Australia without highly protectionist trade policies look like ?
Challenge: Swap the economic/political fates of Australia and Argentina
Discussion on a Jewish homeland in Australia
Discussion about Australia becoming a great power
WI the Gallipoli campaign landings were a success ?
Australian submarines kept in the RAN (with a POD in 1914)
Discussion on Australia going fascist
British Asia-Pacific possessions are transferred to Australia pre-WWII
Plausibility check: An Apartheid-like Institution in Australia ?
Plausibility check: Japanese invasion of Australia
Challenge: Keep the CAC CA-15 Kangaroo alive !
Australian Defence Force goes with Challenger 2 or Leopard 2 tank instead of the M1 Abrams
The ABC retained its monopoly on Australian television
RAAF doesn't replace Mirage IIIs with FA-18 Hornets
Possible presidents of Australia if the 1999 republican referendum was succesful
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21st century
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Miscellaneous
Various 19th and 20th century Aussie PODs
Discussion about the absence of Australian Aboriginal reservations in OTL
ASB / ISOT / Geological
WI: New Guinea connected to Australia
WI the Sahul shelf was not submerged during the holocene ?
WI Australia was a less hostile continent ?
Landlocked Nations, Navies, and Islands ISOT to Waterworld
Australia ISOTed on the 5th of March 2005 to the 5th of March 1935
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