Who abandoned whom?
It’s not Australia that should be afraid by abandonment, it is Britain and the US. When push comes to shove, Australia has always been there for both countries, whereas they have never been there for Australia.
Read the history of the fall of Singapore and the Burma rail and even The Rats of Tobruk. Australia was a convenient hiding place (overpaid, over-sexed, and over here) for the US until their war machine got going.
Even when it came to building the bomb, Australia was there for both of them with design and testing. We have shown before what we are capable of designing and building in time to stand alone as a peaceful trading partner to all.
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