Australia and New Zealand "United"

Australia, asserting its complete independence, has started exerting its influence on the South Pacific. As part of this the Australian government has demanded that all former colonial states of Oceania be placed under their authority. Naturally unwilling, the hard-pressed British and New Zealander governments initially offered diplomatic resistance. However, without any base for projecting the Empire's authority in the region - a role previously fulfilled by Australia, it was only a question of time before Australia presented an ultimatum backed by force. New Zealand is now the eastmost province of Australia.