aussieland was on the wrong side of the world of superiority....

But when the supreme crisis of the war against Japan forced the Australian leadership to look to the United States, Churchill reacted angrily. In any story about Australia and the British Empire, the prevailing assumptions about white superiority are always in the background. To be proud of the British Empire was to be proud of the British race. The Australian Labor Party, from its birth ten years before, was pre-eminently the party of White Australia. “This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States.'