endstream "Where most Australians live is easily accessible to the military arm of a number of countries, particularly Russia and China," he said.The submarine attacks on Sydney Harbour during WWII provide an example of what most security experts consider the worst case scenario in terms of direct military action.Professor Blaxland said it would be within the power of Russia or China to park a contingent of submarines or warships off the coast near one of Australia's population centres and practice "gunboat diplomacy" - demanding concessions with the threat of force behind it.But, he hastened to add, this was still considered an extreme situation by the brains paid to strategise about such things. Hence, this article.Native title can only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded.Why? >>
%PDF-1.4 Hardly the attitude of an invader.In 1816, Governor Lachlan Macquarie appointed native leaders to act as conduits between settlers and natives. /PaintType 1 Renowned Australian anthropologist W.E.H.
/TilingType 1 /XObject << >> /PatternType 1 << The United States is the most advanced nation in the world (military/defense wise at least) so how would it be done … Japan's success in the early months of the Pacific War led elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy to propose invading Australia. 4 0 obj
stream "Let's unite to recognise that 26 January is a celebration of a democratic story that would be incomplete without the Mabo Decision.Let's never again disparage native title by referring to our settlement as an invasion. %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz��������������������������������������������������������������������������� The German army’s planned invasion of neutral Belgium, announced on August 4, prompted Britain to declare war on Germany. /Img3 10 0 R
<< Because international law recognises territories acquired through invasion and annexation by force, prior to the prohibition of war following World War II, as lawful conquests.Provided that all citizens of a lawfully conquered territory are granted equal rights by the local law, the descendants of the conqueror and the conquered are not considered two separate peoples.This in turn invalidates any claims to separate land rights under the same jurisdiction.As one of the 193 member states of the United Nations, Australia is not exempt from this 'Right of Conquest'.Yet we do recognise separate land rights because the historic Mabo Decision in 1992 rested on the correct presumption that Australia was settled, not invaded.In their ruling, Justices Brennan, Deane, Gaudron, Toohey, Mason and McHugh acknowledged that native title could have been intentionally extinguished by the use of government powers, but wasn't.They proceeded to reject the 'terra nullius' doctrine without overturning the traditional view that the Australian landmass had in fact been settled.Had Australia actually been invaded, the descendants of its native population would be classified as a conquered people and their land rights would be abolished.
(�� /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB Former Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the Subsequent Japanese operations in the South-West PacificSubsequent Japanese operations in the South-West Pacific ��0`}�1�y��kV�POD�tV�>��@���̗f�cO+?���z���_�X�o>M�yd��_��O�lU{��n�D��K�FV���=}jD��x�D���~����=DDD]&̅�Rq�u#'��}6�ku��¨��m�~@z����O�_U]�Jk�81�]�q����H'��KA4r�8%0ӊ��H$� n�2KGp��gh��Ͻ� ������H@�K�z`����]О�+�X�D�NA�"[���8TR8#�� ��P#�_h���� �D�ֺ#>n�O+�j�h�TK+�^p���(d������}ꦡ{wc#}�N�!�%f�dϡ�H��Q�aܿe>ƅ�A���;76��~\�΅�8��ȣ���� "Australia's interests are in the maintenance of open and governed maritime space," Prof Blaxland said. Hardly what happens in invaded countries.Whether Australia's colonisation by the British Empire should be classified as an invasion or settlement is not a question of mere semantics. ���� Adobe d �� C
/PaintType 1
"Australia is a long way from anybody with serious military muscle," he said.But that doesn't mean we can't be threatened by strongman rulers looking to flex their muscle. 2.3k votes, 6.9k comments. endobj �� � w !1AQaq"2�B���� #3R�br�
/TilingType 1 /Filter /FlateDecode << In 1942, a series of meetings took place between the war planners of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. It's a question that holds serious legal and political consequences for our country.For most Australians, this debate is as settled as Australia itself on 26 January 1788.American President Abraham Lincoln once said "a house divided against itself cannot stand. /Length 51 /Length 36351 Greens leader Richard Di Natale might like to explain to the Australian people why he is attempting to undermine native title by implying that Australia was invaded and conquered.On 26 January 1788, there was no sovereign state on the landmass we today call Australia. "Our defence force is not structured to repel an invasion," security expert Professor John Blaxland of Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre told nine.com.au.According to Prof Blaxland, the old truths that have kept Australia safe from invasion - except for the colonial project beginning in 1788 - are still in play.He said despite widespread panic at the time, and post-war mythologising, even in World War II we were in no serious danger of occupation.Essentially, our size and relative isolation make a military takeover an impractical option. (�� Moreover, the Army was not willing to release the large number of troops it calculated were needed for such an operation from the We never had enough troops to [invade Australia]. What would happen?
We had already far out-stretched our The Army's and the Navy's calculations of the number of troops needed to invade Australia differed greatly and formed a central area of discussion. A hypothetical Axis victory in World War II has become a common concept of alternative history and counterfactual history.Such writings express ideas of what the world would be like had the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan won World War II.Numerous examples exist in several languages worldwide. "It's still very much a relatively unlikely scenario," he said.Prof Blaxland pointed to Russia and China as world powers who were likely to pose threats to Australia, either through direct coercion, or indirectly. >> From 1788, Australia was treated by the British as a colony of settlement, not of conquest. Mora believes the US military could take on Maduro's 150,000 man army, but Venezuela's geography might become a problem in the case of a ground invasion.