We have an army, navy and air force. We also have a strong alliance with the US under the ANZUS treaty. Plus we still have strong ties to mother england.
As for civil war, I'm not sure. But it's unlikely. We're too apathetic to care much. We'll just blog on news websites instead.
No, Australia turned to the United States to prevent this happening.
Censorship was necessary:-to prevent valuable information getting into enemy handsto prevent false impressions of Australia overseasto maintain high morale on the home front
Yes, Australia fought in the Vietnam war on the side of the capitalists. They joined the war as a coalition with the US as a proxy war of the Cold War, and fought against the Vietcong and communists in an effort to prevent the Domino effect, an ideological security issue. Furthermore, Australia joined to retain the special Great and Powerful Friends relationship it has with the US in its usual sychophantic manner.
(a) to assist in the defeat of the Axis Powers, and (b) to prevent any Japanese encroachment into the South Pacific.
Australia has not had a war. The country has been involved with other wars around the world, but Australia has not had a civil war.
There has only been one war in Australia and that was against Japan.
Australia had nothing to do with the Vietnam War.
See question, how do you prevent a war against nothing
NATO did nothing to prevent the Cold War. NATO was created because of the Cold War and may have helped prevent it from becoming a hot war.
The war after world war 2 in which Australia participated was the Korean war.
Although two groups at war can try and talk it out, there is no guaranteed way to stop/prevent war.
No war has occured on Australian soil. But Australia has been "at war" eg WWI, WWII etc.