Get over it, we weren't at the heart of World War II

[Mike Abberton]

My first thought, too, was "huh? Who seriously thinks that the Japanese even wanted to invade Australia?", but then I thought about it more. It is probably similar to the situation if a popular US historian came out with a book here in the US about how the D-Day and the US/UK (and Free French, Polish, etc.) invasion of Europe wasn't the most important single event that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany.

No serious WW2 historian would debate it, but the general public, politicians and what not would be all over that person's case about how unpatriotic they were, and how could they denigrate so many veterans, etc.