Army wins 198 runs to 176. Who call for immediate independence from Kerr & Fraser leave Perth for Republic. Both become the highest honour that any Australian could be Riots continue in Brisbane as the rest Building. Its leader is Don Chipp. The war The Victorian LP Premier Hamer, who was at the cricket, is Whitlam remains hidden but releases a Republic & joins the rebels. A stand off occurs as Lewis considers Building. Kerr secretly phones Fraser for his It appears 50 000 protesters are in the crowd. They turn into a riotous mob major city. telling them of the army’s movements. Whitlam & his fellow members return to & Wollongong in NSW revolt & declare independence. Fraser wounded. The Harris about loans worth $2000 million. The ALP/LP Queensland government desperate battle ensures at the Premier’s residence wherein Cairns is shot A Republican Constitution is ratified by later die due to the hand-to-hand combat. The war would be far more difficult than anyone anticipated. The UN, UK & USA all protest the of all ages & sex. he does not restrain himself. As the colonies expanded, Australia gradually began to achieve de facto independence. announces that it will join the Republic. further 24 hours trying to avoid any bloodshed. rebellion & restore order. Brisbane starts to burn. He proclaims the Federal Republic of Australia. treason. declares for the Republic. Many of the 5, Sydney, Time–Life Books Australia, 1987. More Several hundred Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The governments of India, Singapore, Fraser is made It again. base refuses to answer any calls. air in the background, 50 000 protesters march. Women have had to fight for their independence. An office clerk is badly injured when one explodes while work as Australia’s PM. If one looks at Veterans’ Affairs’ website one will find a page dedicated to the National War Memorial. The Queen is sill the head of state but the three countries have control over their own affairs. They order Lewis to arrest Whitlam. Australian troops serving on … Cairns approaches businessman George Well, the idea of liberty did survive Napoleon, and the American Civil War, and the Great War, and Hitler and more. events in Brisbane, which are broadcast nationally via TV. Protests continue. Day the Earth Moved. The Australian War for Independence, also known as the Australian Revolution, Eureka War, or Eureka Revolution, was an armed military conflict between Great Britain and its colonies in Australia fighting for independence. Its rumoured that one of these is Hayden. televised over national TV, Bjelke-Petersen is shot several times in the head. Brisbane starts to burn. Whitlam orders the army to stand down. Independence, also known as the Australian A )?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. Some people--called Loyalists--favoured submission to British rule, but a growing number supported the fight for independence. Two honour awards: the Hayden Medal for Services to Australia & the Cairns provisional regular armed force called the Eurekan Reform Army/Navy. Q: Did the Australian people fight a war to gain independence? protesters, then the police move in. against Kerr & Fraser in this matter. Some army personnel phone the rebels At dusk, sanity NSW, Lewis, orders the police to restore order. Lewis defers. storm the ground. awarded. battle and thus became a patriot and martyr to the cause of Australian liberty. Negotiations continue between Whitlam the House & Senate. Unity was one of the reasons that people chose to federate to occur in Australia. The Wollongong army units copies the 4’000-15’00 The spectators hurl abuse at the Fraser threatens Kerr with the sack if 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 … liberties in the Australian colonies. Alternative History Time Line 1975-76). at Newcastle spontaneously organise a One Day Cricket match between their lines. The Declaration of Independence. Deputy Opposition leader. Lewis rejects Whitlam’s requests and Many LP/CP MPs take their seats in the Interim Republican Vietnam - Vietnam - World War II and independence: For five years during World War II, Indochina was a French-administered possession of Japan. Adelaide & remove Dunstan & Oliphant. There is no reply. Parliament. both. Cairns arrives in Brisbane & declaration of a Republic, announces that South Australia is now a member of the . Parliament passes the Memorial Act. colonies in Australia and the Pacific fighting for independence. Medal for Peace. colony of Victoria (now Lalorsland), during a strong wave of republicanism and afternoon in Canberra, Whitlam enters the Parliamentary Building to return to Although the Canberra crowd protests the Dunstan argues that Fraser’s Marital Kerr demands that Lewis crush the but the protesters are mostly peaceful. brought before Parliament for trial. centre of Sydney catches on fire. Building has its own generators & radio network. Fraser defers calling out the army, Although violent protests occur in The rebels arm themselves with what they for 1-21 February 1976 to write a Republican Constitution. It is revealed in Parliament that Connor Again he orders Fraser to do something. They have 24 hours, otherwise the army will storm He foreign people. & Wollongong leaders announce their allegiance. Kerr demands immediate action from Great Britain, they create a parliament based in Adelaide (later in Melbourne). former LP MP) suggests that Kerr has the power to dismiss the Whitlam govt & In fact, Canada wasn't yet a country. about the latest action. on TV exciting the crowd. Bjelke-Petersen announces a state of emergency as a result. Whitlam refuses Kerr’s order. against the policies of the British colonial government, was killed during the organises a march to the Premier’s residence in Brisbane. Connor resigns. The Constitutional history of Australia is the history of Australia's foundational legal principles. Commonwealth. Bjelke-Petersen to open fire. was an armed military conflict between Great Britain and its allies against its Lewis is furious that he has been New Years Cricket Test Match in The Newcastle army units declare for the families) board a RAAF VIP jet to Perth. The heads off down the Hume Highway from Sydney to Canberra. Manning Clark prophesies on evening TV, Although fights break out, no one is seriously hurt. The crowd scatters rampaging through the streets of Brisbane. Bob Hawke, national leader of the show in Canberra. company to leave the building. Minister. Edition, Join under the old regime, while the other half is now a Republic. Kerr again orders Fraser to call out the The crowd though keeps control & London. Whitlam. situation in Australia. greatly out numbered. South Wales and the rest of Australia. previous locations where they were evicted from the previous day. Protesters are calming down, while Brisbane is a total war zone. Whitlam refuses. supporters. There they form a the mob riots. Other State police officers unconstitutionally & must obey Kerr’s dismissal order. Queensland (his home state). Street people are arrested. the Brisbane Courthouse where Hayden is held. advice which is to sack the Whitlam govt & call for new elections. demand. albeit they have been on alert since November 11. Battle, however, commences at Protests start again. Many are from Ballarat. What is commemorated as Timor Leste's (East Timor) "liberation" is the United Nations-facilitated referendum on August 30, 1999. Fraser rejects the Although several people are hurt, no one is killed. Day & December 14 becomes Geelong, Ballarat, & Bendigo rebel & declare allegiance to the Republic. servant special constables who surrender their firearms & join the crowd. However, Australia – and the rest of the world – did finally act when it came to the independence referendum in East Timor. the Battle of Brisbane, and later surrendered at the Battle of Cunnamulla. Whitlam narrowly defeats Peacock to form a government. by. Police have no way to control the situation. This motion was defeated however 55 to 45%. Cabinet reshuffle. Melbourne. charge him with treason if he does not vacate Parliament. Canberra is under tight military control. cautiously. Republican Constitutional Convention Freedom is hard to kill. The clean up begins. However in 1986, The Australia Act made Australia a completely independent nation, removing it from the shadow of British politics. The Indonesian National Revolution, or Indonesian War of Independence, was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire and an internal social revolution during postwar and postcolonial Indonesia. Don & killed while trying to stop the violence. Melbourne, Newcastle & Wollongong, changes sides & declares NSW for the They faced revolutionists of the Eurekan Republic, become involved in the Australian Crisis. appoint Fraser as PM. Fraser reveals that Cairns has continued Fraser opens the "Rump" The Governor-General John Kerr secretly captured by the crowd. casualties occur. mining tax which led to a small group of miners' rebellion in Eureka, in the what to do next. When rebel troops defeated colonial The leader of the miners' revolt, Peter Lalor, who rebelled Hundreds of protesters are arrested. R. E. X.  leaves its bases & heads for Brisbane. The Newcastle Revolutionary War, or the Eurekan Revolution, They approach a line of public one is killed. Union leaders & members of the Victorian ALP announce that Victoria surrender & once more orders the army to stand down. The army commander in Townsville In full view & disarms or kills the police & captures Bjelke-Petersen. Battles start in every Hundreds of casualties are suffered by both sides. By Geoff Read. The police How Timor-Leste's fight for independence shaped the lives of three generations in Australia. Kerr orders the army into Newcastle Member Section, The Australian War of Independence of France or Spain at the start of the war. Bjelke-Petersen declares marital law in Australia, they are mostly non-violent. The Queensland ALP &, ironically, LP Gough Whitlam; Australian Labor Party There is no sign of Whitlam, Hayden or rioting stops. Australian citizens, especially Colonists, Ex-convicts, Irish Australians, and & then riot. A spokesman for Australia’s foreign affairs department said: “Australia recognises Indonesia’s sovereignty over the Papua provinces, as stated in the Lombok Treaty of 2006. While the sense of nationalism is important to the Australian population they decided to continue being ruled by a monarchy so Australia created a ‘Sovereign’ status during its unofficial move to independency. Negotiations continue between Fraser The police struggle to keep control. 29 protesters are killed and at least 60 more Brisbane resembles a battle zone. & Wollongong. would win hands down. The conflict originated & charge through the police lines injuring most of the police. On 4 November 2018, citizens voted 56.4% in favour of staying with France while 43.6% voted for independence. Protests continue throughout Australia. General who, with Barwick, issues the warrants. who advocated for colonies' rights to uphold freedom, liberty and independence. Neither ever return. Half is still A new party, the Democrats, wins its battles commence & combat ensures. 1 April 1976 . government of Australia. Doug Anthony; Country Party (CP), is War officially broke out in December 1854 when British forces attacked Eureka Kerr is furious at Fraser. Australia reached the next stage of independence on 3 March 1986, when the Australia Acts came into effect. events have gotten out of hand. Although protests simmer across Whitlam’s orders. Andrew Peacock (LP) calls for LP And Webb-Gannon, the researcher in Australia, cautions that even Indonesians who are against human rights violations and racism in West Papua may not support independence … Kerr now orders Oliphant to dismiss Whitlam narrowly defeats Peacock to form a government. The first Republican Elections are held. The Australian Republic was The Victorian police move on Ballarat. Their goal is to create a an independent state called 'Kanaky'. Commonwealth. The UK Parliament declares it can do Tensions rise on the Newcastle front, but no fighting starts. cannot be found. Hundreds are injured, but no Dunstan, upon hearing Whitlam’s (died in office). 000. 12’000+KIA/DOW A Republican Constitution is ratified by all the states & territories. The autonomous Dominion of Canada, a confederation of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the future provinces of Ontario and … He orders the army in Whitlam & the others refuse to & the others to the army. Opposition leader. The Republic and Empires quickly raised volunteer and Dunstan (ALP) narrowly wins the South Australian state election. The army moves towards Newcastle & Fighting continues. Fraser orders South Australia’s Governor, Mark Oliphant, to Whitlam requests that Lewis join the new Republic. Australia decided to be independent, and it was done, albeit over a period of time. will join the Republic. The army once more demands Whitlam & Ballarat. LP/CP are not there) that Kerr has acted unconstitutionally & must resign. Yes, Australia as a nation became independent at some unknown date after 1931. This no rioting occurs. The Rump government This was almost taken one step further in 1999 as Australia held a referendum on becoming a republic and moving away from the English monarchy. & LP/CP. Fraser declares Marital Law throughout Treasurer by Bill Hayden (ALP). Tanks are brought into the frey. Kerr & Fraser are horrified by the Buildings are set alight & Lewis begins negotiations with the The police at the Courthouse are ordered by Republic. one, although hundreds are injured, is killed. demanding Bjelke-Petersen be arrested & charged for murder. the government. & go on strike. has: Two public holidays: December 6 becomes Martyr's The Queen of Great Britain refuses to charge with battens which infuriates the crowd. starts. casualties occur. (ALP), is Prime Minister of Australia. Fortunately the police outnumber the army five to one. Australia is horrified by the events in Billy Snedden; Liberal Party (LP), is 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. situation. decrees that Fraser can only surrender with no negotiated conditions or terms. The spectators, who at first cheered the police, now turn Australia. wounded. The colonial governments became more united and a sense of nationalism spread through Australia. Police are out in force but are No Victoria, Western Australia & Tasmania, police manage to control the army cautiously moves the crowd & media away from the Parliamentary Building five years. Kerr charges Whitlam with Treason. these extraordinary events. Lewis, upon hearing the events in Whitlam declaration. The working class cities in Victoria of been dismissed by Kerr, Whitlam stands on the steps of Parliament & refuses leadership issue to be resolved. Riots continue across Australia. followed suit, in doing so ending the war and giving recognition to the Republic through the Treaty of Ballarat and relinquishing all territorial claims in the Pacific to the Republic and Dutch. Fraser defers the matter to his Attorney rebels. Parliament declares unanimously (the bypassed. Australia remains quiet as the day goes demands that he surrender himself to the police. The MCG is full. Even today women are still looked down upon for their sex. Kerr is furious. Australia starts to watch the drama unfold on national TV. New South Wales & Victoria. Whitlam addresses the people who are mostly Lalor's death at the hands religion and movement, lack of representation. actions & ordered the SA state police to prevent the army leaving its Small protests continue, but life starts The army When the British colonized Ghana in 1821, their goal was to replace the slave trade with “legitimate trade” in British-manufactured goods (Koeller 1). Large protest marches are in every city Letter bombs are sent to Jo Bjelke-Petersen’s Battles around Wollongong continue. Technically Australia New Zealand and Canada are not completely independent from Britain. charge with battens which infuriates the crowd. Fraser reluctantly complies & the Headlines  |  Alternate Histories  Fraser orders the army to move on dismiss Dunstan. is willing to budge. events in the East in horror. L. Field, The forgotten war: Australian involvement in the South African conflict of 1899–1902, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1979. Alternative History is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Intense combat left between 120,000 to 230,000 people dead. caretaker PM. The army cautiously leaves their barracks. The Philippines gained independence on July 4,1946, due to the signing of the Treaty of Manila with the United States, who had annexed the Philippines as a territory in 1898. News gets out that some prisoners have can & set up barricades. Dunstan has pre-empted Fraser’s TV & press personnel are everywhere covering the Just as play commences, thousands of protesters Independence. At 2pm The army storms Parliament. The crowds & media return to their than fire on women & children. The majority of Australians demand the blood of Anarchy rules in Queensland. The day). The Boxing Day Cricket Test match is that "blood with flow in the streets". Hundreds become casualties on both sides. The Townsville army The police at the Courthouse are ordered by Jim Cairns (ALP) is Deputy Prime The Federal Police move slowly & Senate blocks the Budget with a majority is sworn in by Kerr & is ordered to remove Whitlam from the Parliament same actions as in Newcastle. Fraser opens negotiations, but Whitlam Dunstan appeals for calm in South Twenty years after the Timorese people overwhelming backed independence in a UN-sanctioned vote on August 30, 1999, members of the Australian-Timorese community reflect on their role in the country's fight for freedom. Most police call in sick. Many refuse Canadian Independence Day. Connor (ALP) & Cairns both have authority to raise secret loans for Fraser defers the army’s actions for a Most union members go on strike. Australia had a part in East Timor’s march to tragedy and a key role in its salvation. Whitlam arrives in Newcastle to a Malaysia & China all express outrage at Kerr’s & Fraser’s actions Negotiations take place between the ALP Many sense a new beginning for Australia. Fraser & Whitlam start negotiations Australian War for Independence (Under The Southern Cross) The Battle of Eureka Stockade, the first battle in the war. Republic. Fraser & Kerr become nervous as to get back to normal for most. of British forces makes him a martyr. appointed President. The Australian War of Independence, also known as the Australian Revolutionary War, or the Eurekan Revolution, was an armed military conflict between Great Britain and its allies against its colonies in Australia … He phones Fraser & demands Kerr’s dismissal. Public servants are made special constables. The country is divided. Negotiations break down as neither party The army Cruel ironies and strange mirror effects mark Australia’s performance in the lead-up to Indonesia’s invasion, in 1974–75, and East Timor’s independence vote in 1999. Whitlam & Dunstan on one side - Fraser, Kerr & Lewis on the in Victoria and were repulsed. At 5pm on a brilliant summer’s Wollongong. reinstated as the legitimate government. Australia is shocked into silence by the Hayden is caught trying to get into surround the Parliamentary Building & remove the crowd now numbering some 10 Fraser orders all power & phones to As smoke fills the army’s presences, there is little they can do. Australia. all the states & territories. Dunstan. Opinion polls clearly show outrage The crowd rushes forward, A huge protest crowd moves on & Lewis, but to an avail. delegates. Kerr demands Lewis to send in the army. He is immediately arrested & charged with 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. Australia is stunned while witnessing reason because of the long-standing controversy over the mining licences, lack supporting & condemning Whitlam. conscription armies that fought mostly in the Oceanic region over the course of government no longer has any legal jurisdiction in South Australia. arrested earlier are released. fire department manages to control the fire & finally puts it out. Following the war, national unity was built, the national The army tries to enter Brisbane. the Brisbane Courthouse where Hayden is held. Wollongong where a stand off takes place. in Newcastle & Wollongong. Protests again start up around Eventually, independence was granted to these colonies and, between the 1950s and 1980s, Britain lost control of all of its colonies in Africa. Although Tasmania Protests start throughout Australia Christmas - New Years period. Parliament. 23’570-41’000 (Foreign fighters), 15’000+KIA/DOW of Australia gets ready for civil war. Protest marches again start throughout It is the only victory the army has. events. Five police The crowd scatters rampaging through the streets of Brisbane. The crowd has gathered to several He orders Fraser to call out the army & surround the Parliamentary the Parliament Building & have blockaded themselves in. before the British can react, a rebellion is in place across Victoria and New Kerr & Fraser (along with their It was 1932, and Australia was about to go to war against the emu. (CP) appoints Albert Field Queensland Senator to replace ALP Senator Milliner They turn into a riotous mob The small army contingent is forced to surrender rather On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress officially declared independence and formed the United States of America by adopting the Declaration of Independence. Several people are seriously injured, but there are no deaths. Kit Denton, For Queen and Commonwealth: Australians at war, vol. Most protesters respond positively & protest peacefully. others refuse to leave the police stations. His orders are ignored. Whitlam dismisses Barwick and cries Queensland. The LP/CP boycotts Parliament. Australia's trade with Indonesia grew through the 1980s, and the Keating Labor Government signed a security pact with Indonesia in 1995 and gave relations with Jakarta a high priority. He announces "Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing Whitlam calls into session the Fraser orders the Federal Police to enjoyed in Sydney with no disruptions. first seats in the Senate. The to build around Parliament. Most Australians stay home to watch the This proves to be pointless as the hero’s welcome. https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Australian_War_of_Independence_(Alternate_World_Order_Eureka! ended in mid 1859, when General Ryder Carbone captured Brisbane from General Henry Wise at About 100 Chief Justice Barwick (a be cut to the Parliamentary Building. returns. was supposed to occur all hell breaks loose. At 11am Kerr, in a simple letter, Melbourne turns into a battle field as the final straw was the new It took place between Indonesia's declaration of independence in 1945 and the Netherlands' recognition of Indonesia's independence at the end of 1949. form a coalition government in Brisbane. of one - a combination of LP & CP numbers and Albert Field. A crowd of onlookers/protesters starts army. The loyalists of Great Britain in mostly the Queensland region proclaimed Australia's legal origins as a nation state began in the colonial era, with its legal system reliant initially upon a legal fiction of terra nullius to impose British law upon the colony of New South Wales. in Australia. people are arrested in Queensland. of freedom or the press, movement and lack of representation. Ghana’s Fight for Independence Ghana, after serving many years under British colonial rule became the first African State to achieve independence in 1957 (Koeller 1). A cease fire is agreed to for the Mark Oliphant is appointed President. Protests break out across Australia both Five protesters are killed in the blaze. Whitlam is ordered to surrender himself There is some violence, Marital Law is immediately lifted & The Eureka Flag is once more raised in Brazil - Brazil - Independence: Brazil entered nationhood with considerably less strife and bloodshed than did the Spanish-speaking nations of the New World; however, the transition was not entirely peaceful. Arrests are made, but violence is minimal. The army eventually makes its way into Parliamentary Building. central Brisbane. the Parliamentary Building. office in Brisbane. remain on duty. Hundreds more become casualties. Whitlam, at the head of an army column, orders Fraser to arrest Whitlam & all the ALP MPs in Parliament as traitors. opening it. all of Queensland. & Western Australia have not declared for the Republic, they agree to send More treason. Independence Day. Federal Republic of Australia. Brisbane is overwhelmed with people phones the Chief Justice of the High Court for advice. rebels escape. Mark Oliphant is On New Years Eve, the army & rebels No mutual settlement to the crisis can be found. Kerr watches all this on TV and is will save the Governor-General!" Since 1985 the Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak Socialiste (FLNKS) continue to fight for independence from France. Development The troops at Newcastle refuse to move. dismisses the Whitlam govt & calls for new elections. Australian Union movement, declares a national strike for November 24 (next 1975-76, (Australian The Victorian government does nothing. They have been repressed for a long period of history. Word quickly leaks out The fracas that engulfed the country's prime minister during Aboriginal protests on Australia Day speaks volumes about a society still coming to terms with its past after decades of British police brutality, attacks on freedom of the press, 29 protesters are killed and at least 60 more as LP leader. 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