I think if Australia hadn't just been through the trauma of the Vietnam War we might have been more inclined to stand up to Indonesia when it invaded East Timor and West Papua during the 1970s. I was just a kid at the time but looking back on it now it seems like abject political cowardice on Australia's part. The Australian Army kicked the sh*t out of the pro-Indonesian militias in East Timor in 1999, I think it would've given the Indonesian Army advisers a hell of a wake up call when they saw what happened to the militias. East Timorese independence wouldn't have occurred in the T2K timeline though.
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