Death or Liberty!

Death or Liberty!
In 1803 Irish Rebel Convicts seized control of the New South Wales colony in the Castle Hill Rebellion. Their revolution burned across Australia. Into Queensland and Victoria, and across into Van Diemen's Land. Eventually the British would surrender and the East coast of Australia would become the Kingdom of Australis (Death or Liberty!) with the rebel's leader Phillip Cunningham as their Monarch.

In 1850 the Irish Potato famine would devastate the Irish population, most of the Irish willing to leave their land would sail to Australis, exploding the majority Irish populace even higher. at this same time gold would be discovered in Ballarat, immigrants from all over the world would flood to the Irish nation. some violence between Britishers from the remaining British Australian colonies and Irish would break out, but the goldfields would stay mostly calm. The Australis government would only tax gold that was sold, not tax the right to mine it.

In 1901, The British colonies would unite into Commonwealth of Australia, one of these colonies would be Auralia, which succeeded from Western Australia after protest over Perth's controvesial decisions on the Nullarbor Goldfields. The Australisian monarch at the time William Cunningham II begun to worry that war would break out between the two powers.

One shot would tear apart Europe in a matter of years. The Great War would begin the Central Powers would fight against the Entente. Australis would not join the war until April 1916, when an Irish uprising in Ireland was put down. When news of this would reach the ears of the Australis populace, protests would break out, demanding that the Australis government would declare war on the British. Militias would gather their guns and cross the border to attack British garrisons. The King would demand the Australis Parliament to go to war. soon Australis troops would cross the border.

The Australisian army would quickly capture Darwin, trench warfare would occur across the South Australian border. The Australisan Army would make use of an Aboriginal Cavalry Division called the 'Wurrunnas' to scout out enemy positions and on one occasion de-rail a British train carrying troops and important supplies. By the war's end the Australian front had calmed down. The British and Australisians would sign a White Peace. Hostilites would end, but tension between the Commonwealth and the Kingdom would still be boiling.

Secretly the Australisians would support the Irish Republic in the Irish war of Independence, providing Australisian arms and even soldiers. After the war another war would break out, the Irish Civil War, the Australisians would again support the Irish Republic against the Irish Free State.

Hitler's regime would invade Poland in 1939, kicking off the largest war in mankind's history. Australian soldiers would be shipped off to North Africa and Greece to fight for the British. another growing Empire would also expand. The Japanese would attack America on December 1941, the Americans would set sail for the Pacific to fight off the Japanese. They would be welcomed by Australis who had been fighting against the Japanese in Indonesia and on the seas. slowly the Australisians and Americans would fight the Japanese back, and eventually the war would come to an end.

A new terryifing age would dawn upon the world a new, Cold War. Australis would naturally ally with the US against the anti-monarchy, athiest Soviet Union. Their troops would fight in the Korean War and are currently fighting in the Vietnam war.

Today (1973) Australis is a mostly liberal industrious country, it is extremely multicultural. Their are many groups within the nation which wish for annexation into the commonwealth, including the Commonwealth Party, and the insurgent Royal Australis Army. but it is likely they will remain divided for the years to come.