User blog comment:Callumthered/Portuguese Australia?/@comment-32656-20120211074338/@comment-1310192-20120213030144

Well, the Portuguese more or less did pay to get the Pacific-but that was the lucrative Moluccas, not Australia per se. And it isn't moving the line as much as Spain arguing to get spice territories which caused them to change the "Oh, you can conquer what you discover" to true "this half is yours and this half is mine".