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Australian soldiers helped to fight off the Japanese in Malaya. Moreover, they were the ones who caused a lot of damage to the Japanese and they were one of the Allied.

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The Japanese were being fought from bases in northern Australia, so the Japanese attacked places where there were concentrations of Allied (especially American) forces and their equipment. This included Darwin, Broome, Thursday Island and Sydney (the latter being an attack by midget submarines on ships in the harbour as well as shelling by the mother submarine).

Because there were areas that were particularly rich in raw materials such as oil, steel and rubber. They attacked these places because they wanted it all for themselves, and they didn't want Australia to bother them while they mined the resources for themselves. When they tried to start setting up bases in Australia, the battered U.S. navy tried desperately to stop them. An effort, which would be barely successful would be the first battle between Japan an the U.S. for control of resource reserves in the Pacific.

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