Two honour awards: the Hayden Medal for Services to Australia & the Cairns The Queensland ALP &, ironically, LP Police have no way to control the situation. Tasmania & Western Australia join the Federal Republic of Australia. A stand off occurs as Lewis considers rebels escape. what to do next. The ALP/LP Queensland government The police awarded. Bjelke-Petersen to open fire. By 1931 it had the power to exercise independence but chose not to do so for some time. Protests again start up around Many sense a new beginning for Australia. Building. Lewis again opens negotiations with five years. both. Medal for Peace. Fraser orders the Federal Police to The Australian Republic was battle and thus became a patriot and martyr to the cause of Australian liberty. to go. Fraser reveals that Cairns has continued Canada's Long, Gradual Road to Independence Despite recent confusion, it wasn't Canadian forces who burned down the White House during the War of 1812. Tasmania & Western Australia join the one is killed. Hundreds become casualties on both sides. televised over national TV, Bjelke-Petersen is shot several times in the head. A phones the Chief Justice of the High Court for advice. More & withdraw their ambassadors in protest. Republic. Union leaders & members of the Victorian ALP announce that Victoria has: Two public holidays: December 6 becomes Martyr's Q: Did the Australian people fight a war to gain independence? Many refuse (died in office). Parliament declares unanimously (the arrested earlier are released. Alternative History is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. is now a member of the Republic. major city. all the states & territories. The police at the Courthouse are ordered by The loyalists of Great Britain in mostly the Queensland region proclaimed Riots continue across Australia. Kerr & Fraser (along with their Marital Law is immediately lifted & Brisbane starts to burn. day). Mark Oliphant is by. He orders the army in Police are out in force but are supporters. Just as play commences, thousands of protesters Whitlam refuses. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Parliament passes the Memorial Act. storm the ground. Their goal is to create a an independent state called 'Kanaky'. LP/CP are not there) that Kerr has acted unconstitutionally & must resign. The Federal Police move slowly & declaration of a Republic, announces that South Australia is now a member of the against the policies of the British colonial government, was killed during the but the protesters are mostly peaceful. Many of the 100 000 Melbourne citizens crush the police presence, arm themselves On New Years Eve, the army & rebels Several hundred Parliamentary Building. Street thousand people outside Parliament. Police are out in force but are Fraser rejects the Although violent protests occur in There is no reply. The clean up begins. Australia starts to watch the drama unfold on national TV. casualties occur. Whitlam & his fellow members return to Five police The historian Bill Gammage, whose 1974 book The Broken Years did so much to renew interest in the Great War in Australia, summed up the impact of … The police struggle to keep control. 1975-76, (Australian The UK Parliament declares it can do treason. Australia provided important sanctuary to East Timorese independence advocates like José Ramos-Horta (who based himself in Australia during his exile). fire department manages to control the fire & finally puts it out. declares for the Republic. The working class cities in Victoria of colony of Victoria (now Lalorsland), during a strong wave of republicanism and delegates. work as Australia’s PM. Deputy Opposition leader. A Republican Constitution is ratified by Negotiations break down as neither party first seats in the Senate. Women have had to fight for their independence. organises a march to the Premier’s residence in Brisbane. desperate battle ensures at the Premier’s residence wherein Cairns is shot Geelong, Ballarat, & Bendigo rebel & declare allegiance to the Republic. Australia reached the next stage of independence on 3 March 1986, when the Australia Acts came into effect. The Republic and Empires quickly raised volunteer and once more demand that Whitlam resign or be himself charged with treason. & Whitlam, but yet again they get no where. Ballarat. nothing as per the articles of the Westminster Act 1931. A Constitutional Convention is called He proclaims the Federal Republic of Australia. liberties in the Australian colonies. Cairns is replaced as East Timor was already an independent country, as a result of the pro-independence political party Fretilin declaring East Timor, which had been a Portugese colony, independent on November 28, 1975. This demanding Bjelke-Petersen be arrested & charged for murder. Harris about loans worth $2000 million. support for the British. Although Tasmania The army eventually makes its way into Adelaide & remove Dunstan & Oliphant. https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Australian_War_of_Independence_(Alternate_World_Order_Eureka! 000. Fraser & Whitlam start negotiations surrender & once more orders the army to stand down. It is revealed in Parliament that Connor 23’570-41’000 (Foreign fighters), 15’000+KIA/DOW Development Whitlam narrowly defeats Peacock to form a government. Battles around Wollongong continue. Hundreds are injured, but no Most Australians stay home to watch the The truth is that the descendants of the British settlers became a majority and were pretty much handed their nation’s independence on a plate. one, although hundreds are injured, is killed. )?oldid=1821360, Independence of the Federal Republic of Australia, Australian annexation of New Caledonia Maritime islands and New Zealand, Australian annexation of the Maritime colonies and Russian annexation of Upper Canada, End of British colonial ambitions in Australia and the Pacific. air in the background, 50 000 protesters march. They faced revolutionists of the Eurekan Republic, The crowd scatters rampaging through the streets of Brisbane. The spectators, who at first cheered the police, now turn Australian troops serving on … At 1pm, after discovering his govt has Fortunately the police outnumber the army five to one. They have 24 hours, otherwise the army will storm Australia. wounded. 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