Was Australia An Economy Or Industrial Downfall?

With military manufacturing and increased imports, one could certainly feel that Australia would have had either an economic or industrial downfall since the world was just recovering from the Great depression when the Second World War began in rapid succession. However, to all doubters and criticizers of the World, Australia flourished in military expansion. It enhanced its industrialist capabilities on a national level, prompting the construction of several industries in several fields one after the other and, in some cases, simultaneously. Of course, more construction and creation of factories and other industries in different sectors meant more economic growth for the country. This was observed as a true factor ever since Australia started
This was also key in giving Australia other advantages over the armies their Military was continuously fighting. On the other hand, Australia was also strengthening its defence mechanisms and importing any gods available on the global market to provide adequate defences for the country itself from airborne warfare as well as landing operations and naval warfare. Although Australia failed to eliminate the threat of repetitive air raids from Japanese aircraft, it did manage to retaliate and cause casualties on the Japanese side. The Naval defence that was manufactured rapidly for Australia proved to secure Australian water territories from Germans and the Japanese through two major naval battles that were won by Australia along with its Allied
These reforms, however, also orchestrated improvements in infrastructure of the country through the reasons of defence mechanisms by building stronger buildings, factories as well as roads that were strong enough to withstand heavy bombings. Such improvement in infrastructure inevitably brought in more investors from the entire world and allowed Australia to flourish while it battled in the Second World War. These new improvements also made sure that Australia’s living standards rose instead of declining and with new infrastructures being deployed in all parts of Australia, it was only a matter of time before new social reforms were introduced within the country and rightly salvaged to secure more social facilities for the nation’s general