Talk:Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand (1983: Doomsday)

Would Auckland or Brisbane not be the biggest city? They weren't bombed at all. I think New Zealand would also be stronger than Australia after the attacks, having read the whole ALT.194.164.174.82 18:32, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. I just changed it to Brisbane. Also even if New Zealand would be stronger than Australia it wouldn't really stop Canberra from being the capital city.--ShutUpNavi 04:24, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Territories
I made that list myself; if anyone wants to add comment or disagreement, go ahead. I wonder if Niue or the Cook Islands would choose to join the Commonwealth rather than retain their associated state status (inherited from their pre-Doomsday treaties with New Zealand). Benkarnell 17:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Name change.
Naming the country the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand is kind of a mouth full I.M.O. While it works for an official name it’s too long to call it that for every sentence. How about we rename the article and common name for the country Australia–New Zealand Commonwealth, or just Australia–New Zealand? When Austria and Hungary were united as a single country before the end of World War I they were known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or just Austria–Hungary. I think we should adopt a similar name for this page/country.--ShutUpNavi 17:01, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * ):) That's why I used the ANZC abbreviation in most places... but we can move the page to the ANZC (1983:Doomsday) cause i think linkin is the problem you targeting at...

also im in New Zealand right now i think about any prper/slang term to call the OZ+NZ Commonwealth :) --Xi&#39;Reney 23:52, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Currency
When did the currency become the pound sterling? Australia used dollars. New Zealand used dollars. The various American territories absorbed into the ANZC used dollars. It seems pretty clear that the commonwealth is going to end up adopting a unified currency called the dollar, unless they suddenly have a fit of British nostalgia. Benkarnell 17:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Never mind, someone seems to have changed it without discussion. I'll change it back.  Benkarnell 17:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Government
Not much work on the government yet. Since the ANZC is sort of "group property", maybe it should be discussed. I don't think they'd keep the title of Governor-General, since that implies a subordinate position to the monarch. Simply a President?

Also, I've been wondering whether Australia and New Zealand are completely integrated, or whether they are federalized somehow. Is there an Australian government anymore, or just governments for the individual states? Benkarnell 17:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * the tile of Governor-General might have been kept for traditional purposes. as for its composition, ANZ might be more centralised to help with reconstruction. There has been talk *here* of abolishing the states due to some mismanagement so the idea wouldn't come out of nowhere.--Marcpasquin 18:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I've also been wondering about political parties. I'm not familiar enough with the politics of Oz or NZ to even guess what political parties would emerge in a combined state.  But I'm curious, because those parties would inflience politics in Hawaii.  Benkarnell 21:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * And also, someone somewhere suggested that the ANZC might build a new capital: on the Australian continent (bulk of the area and population) but on the coast (so all the islanders wouldn't have to go inland, which seems more Australia-centric, somehow). Jervis Bay is part of Canberra's capital district, but remains undeveloped as a port.  Its original intention was to function as a port for Canberra.  It seems like a good idea to me to build a capital there, and leave Canberra as the capital for Australia itself.


 * Final thought: I may be way off here, but it always seemed to me that Canadians kept the Monarchy because of their love and loyalty to it, while Australians kept it because they couldn't be arsed to abolish it. So for that reason I suggest that the Commonwealth adopted a President rather than a G-G.  Plus a Parliament and PM and all that; the only difference would be the name. Benkarnell 22:04, 25 June 2009 (UTC)