Australia is a British Dominion and member of the British Commonwealth located in Oceania. It comprises the entire Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, the Solomon Islands, eastern New Guinea, and numerous smaller islands. Australia is bordered by The Dutch East Indies, an Integrated Puppet of the Netherlands, in New Guinea (Papua) and is close to New Zealand , United Kingdom in the Christmas Island, France in New Caledonia and Portugal in Portuguese Timor.
Australia was among the first countries to announce it was at war with Germany, on 3 September 1939. However, Australia did not make a separate declaration of war. Prime Minister Robert Menzies considered that the British declaration legally bound Australia, and he announced that a state of war now existed between Australia and Germany as a direct consequence of the British declaration.
More than one million Australian men served in the war out of a total population of around seven million. Although it was ill-prepared for war, the Australian government immediately assigned to the war effort units already in the UK (such as No 10 Squadron RAAF), and soon had dispatched other Royal Australian Air Force squadrons and personnel to serve with the Royal Air Force. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) commenced operations against Italy after its entry into the war in June 1940. Later that year the Australian Army entered campaigns against Italy and Germany in North Africa and Greece. German submarines and raiding ships operated in Australian waters throughout the war. The most intensive and numerically largest part of Australia's war effort came after the outbreak of hostilities with Japan in late 1941. The Australian mainland came under direct attack for the first time in 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched a major bombing attack on Darwin in February, and attacked many other towns in northern Australia. Axis covert raiding ships and submarines struck at shipping and shore targets around Australia, including a submarine attack on Sydney Harbour.
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Australia starts in 1936 with two research slots. It can gain two further slots from the generic National focuses (if the user has not activated the "Together for Victory" expansion) - Extra Research Slot and Extra Research Slot II, or three further slots from its unique Focus Tree (with the "Together for Victory expansion) - Army Inventions Directorate, Research Collaboration and Fund Australian Defense Research. The fifth research slot can only be taken once Australia is fully independent.
If the "Together for Victory" expansion has been activated, Australia also starts as a part of the Commonwealth ResearchTechnology Sharing group. It remains available even if Australia becomes fully independent.
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If the user has enabled the "Together for Victory" expansion, Australia starts with the following National Spirit. Otherwise, Australia starts with no National Spirits.
Great Depression
Consumer Goods Factories: 20%.
Stability: -10.00%
Factory output: -15.00%
Dockyard Output: -15.00%
This National Spirit can be mitigated or even removed with National Focuses.
As a Democratic country, Australia has a positive relationship with other Democratic countries (+20) and a slight negative relationship with everyone else (-10). Australia begins the game in the Allies. If the "Together for Victory" expansion has been activated, Australia starts as a Dominion of the United Kingdom with 200 freedom points on the way to becoming Free.
+15% Air Base construction speed, +15% Naval base construction speed, +15% Rocket Site construction speed, +15% Radar Station construction speed, +15% Nuclear Reactor construction speed
150
Lance Sharkey
Communist Revolutionary
Daily Communism Support: +0.1, Allows "Communism on the Rise" decisions
150
Ron Law
Fascist Demagogue
Daily Fascism Support: +0.1, Allows "Fascism on the Rise" decisions
150
Ben Chiffley
Smooth-Talking Charmer
+10% Trade deal opinion factor
100
Robert G.Menzies
Backroom Backstabber
+5% Political Power Gain, +15% Ideology drift defense
150
Arthur Calwell
Democratic Reformer
Daily Democracy Support: +0.1, Allows "Move towards Democracy" decisions