[anon2457]

The title suggest he was doing something secretive between three countries but it should be noted that Australia didn’t have non-British passports until 1949 and at that stage Australia was still very much part of Britain.

[danieltillett]

We might have had British passports, but we were certainly not part of Britain.

[anon2457]

We had British passports and British currency. There was a lot of nationalistic work put in after World War 2 so that Australia and NZ would see themselves as completely separate countries.

[danieltillett]

No we had Australia currency. There certainly was a breakaway from Britain during WWII after Churchill abandoned us and the USA came to our rescue. Curtin pulling the Australian troops out of North Africa was probably the point of no return.

It was a slow divorce from the empire, but it was well advance pre WWII.

In some ways the relationship of Australia (and NZ) was similar to that of the countries of the EU. There was free movement of people (provided you were white) and free trade around the empire, but most people thought of themselves as citizens of their own countries.

[adrianratnapala]

By "British currency" do you mean the the Australian Pound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_pound)?

That's not a British currency. The hint is in the name.