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** The above-mentioned Discworld novel ''The Last Continent'' proposes that the perspective-altering beer is the ''cause'' of the Vegemite. Also, time travel.
* ''[[The Tomorrow Series]]'' by John Marsden, was a popular series of [[Young Adult]] novels released in the early 1990s, where Australia gets invaded and occupied during Australia Day by an unnamed foreign power (read: Indonesia) and a group of kids, who were out camping at the time, start a vicious campaign of guerrilla warfare against them. No, really. For books aimed at kids in high school, it leaned a good way towards the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|darker side of the scale]], giving readers a pretty frank war story featuring firefights, [[Anyone Can Die|death]] and sex (for which the schoolboys rejoiced). A movie has been made.
* In the third book of F.M. Busby's ''Rissa Kerguelen'' series, it's revealed that Australia managed to keep its independence from [[One Nation Under Copyright|UET]] by developing a '''very''' powerful weapon, which they demonstrated by [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroying one of the moons of Jupiter]]. Rissa and her husband Bran Tregare are in the process of overthrowing UET, and when Tregare hears about the weapon, he remarks, "When the time comes, remind me to be ''very'' polite to Australia." Rissa assures him there shouldn't be a problem: because he was '''born''' in Australia and he's done lots of damage to UET, "they celebrate your birthday as a national holiday!"
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