Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand (1983: Doomsday)

The Commonwealth of Australia formally remained the same as in OTL. As the capital Canberra remained untouched from nuclear attacks, the central government survived and maintained a basic degree of order and prevented the chaos and anarchy as happened in many other countries. As Sydney, Melbourne and Perth have been destroyed and many people died, the institutional powers were partly concentrated in the hand of the central government.

Some Areas in former Indonesia, Papua-New Guinea and Ost-Timor which since the late 1990's have increasingly been used economically by Australia and are de facto protecorates/possessions of Australia, though this word is not officially been used by any government.

A major factor of influence on Australian inner affairs is the relation to the neighbours in New Zealand as the traditional ANZ - cooperation became even closer. The two countries have already integrated many branches of government, along with intensed food deliveries and economical cooperation in transport, military, foreign affairs.

Under the impression of growing international cooperation and the beginning formation of new blocks and alliances Australia and New Zealand are expected to very soon announce a de facto unification of the "natural" partners.