Perhaps also because Australia is an island, so it has no borders with countries that can easily interfere Well, there are no good options for a proxy governme

Perhaps also because Australia is an island, so it has no borders with countries that can easily interfere Well, there are no good options for a proxy government for white / western powers in southeast asia to Australia. Argentina? There a half dozen different political states being played off against one another in South America, all with varying historical ties to European powers. The article shows it: Argentina and Brazil were fighting a war.