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Officialy Australia still is the "Commonwealth of Australia". There has never been a time at which Australia's official name has stopped being the Commonwealth of Australia
The population in the north was evacuated and plans were made to defend Australia along the 'Brisbane Line'. This was a gross over-reaction as the Japanese had no intention of invading Australia - they simply didn't have the resources to do so - the best they could muster to try to capture Port Moresby was a weak division, while Australia had three armoured divisions and five infantry divisions in Australia at the time.
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See the link below for a detailed timeline of gold discovery in Australia.
The Portuguese are credited with discovering the sea route to Australia, even though they did not recognise Australia as a separate continent at the time.