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Having studied Australian involvement in World War Two, I could go into serious rebuttal of some of the thoughts here.

Japanese massacre of all the Australian citizens was simply impossible, and I really think that many people have no idea just how big Australia is. The plan of a Japanese incursion onto the Australian mainland before full US commitment was to withdraw down to a parallel at Brisbane and make a final defence there. I'm sorry Mohoender, but the Japanese couldn't supply their troops in New Guinea, they had as much chance of comprehensively invading mainland Australia as they had of invading the moon.
What they could do is dominate the air over Darwin and other northern ports, which they did with some vigour. Darwin, on mainland Australia, suffered 64 separate air raids, more bombs were dropped on Darwin than Pearl Harbour, 243 people dying in the first air raid alone.

Tojo was totally against invading Australia, in his own words;

We never had enough troops to do so [invade Australia]. We had already far out-stretched our lines of communication. We did not have the armed strength or the supply facilities to mount such a terrific extension of our already over-strained and too thinly spread forces. We expected to occupy all New Guinea, to maintain Rabaul as a holding base, and to raid Northern Australia by air. But actual physical invasion—no, at no time.

Australian troops and the Australian public fought fairly well during WW2, the dock strike was due to profiteering more than union rights.

Industrial conscription and the drive to increase productivity led to an increasing degree of industrial unrest over time. Many workers were required to work long hours in poor conditions and were not able to change their employment due to the manpower laws. Poor work conditions were exacerbated by the Government's austerity measures reducing workers' standards of living. As a result, strikes and other forms of protest disrupted Australian production, especially from 1943 onwards. These protests attracted considerable criticism from other civilians and members of the military. In May 1943 the Government introduced policies which enabled workers who were undertaking unlawful industrial action to be conscripted into the military, but this had little impact due to the shortage of skilled labour in the industries most prone to industrial disputes.

What most people fail to understand is that the Japanese couldn't beat the Chinese, let alone the first world powers. If Germany had not been absorbing so much attention of the British it is liable they could have beaten them by themselves. The USA managed to use 90% of its air force on another enemy and still beat Japan. After 1944 the Germans were so battered by US and commonwealth air-power that they had 80% of the Luftwaffe on the western front. China managed to hold off the Japanese while fighting a civil war, and more Japanese troops lost their lives fighting in China than anywhere else.