No. Australia has gained complete independence from Britain. This was a long process, beginning with Federation, when the six states came together as one federated nation, under an Australian Prime Minister.
As a British Colony and later a British Dominion Australia gradually gained more and more autonomy. It did not achieve full independent Sovereignty until 3 March 1986, when the Australia Acts came into effect, terminating all British jurisdiction over Australia.
The fact that Australia still pledges allegiance to the Queen has little "official" significance. The Governor General is the Queen's representative in Australia, but is appointed at the discretion of the Prime Minister, who in turn is elected by the people of Australia.
James Cook did not "take" Australia. He did, however, claim part of Australia for great Britain. James Cook was the first known European to sail up and chart the eastern coast of Australia, which he claimed for Great Britain under the name of New South Wales.
Australia was originally settled as a penal (prison) colony by Great Britain in 1788. The first Governor who established the colony at Sydney was Arthur Phillip. Great Britain in 1788.
Great Britain specifically did not support Australia in the Vietnam War even though allied under SEATO to resist communist aggression in South East Asia, becoming in many Australian eyes Little England.
When the First Fleet arrived in Australia, it symbolised Great Britain's claim on the eastern half of the continent. Colonisation means settling an area in the name of a particular country (or group), and the First Fleet's arrival meant that Europeans were settling in Australia under the name of Great Britain.
In the 1700s, Britain claimed and settled into Australia, as Britain declared the island and continent sparsely uninhabited, or, 'terra nulius', under which they began to rule this territory.
All of the states of Australia were originally separate British colonies.
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Five countries - Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, and Switzerland - have been represented at all Summer Olympic Games. Greece is the only one to have participated under its own flag in all Games.France did not send a team to the 1904 games. One Frenchman competed, for the US and a mixed team.
No. Thailand was a separate region known as Siam under Japanese control. It had no authority over its decisions.
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