DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA
DISCLOSURE OF ORIGINAL PLAN. STAND ON BRISBANE LINE. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 3. When General MacArthur arrived in Australia a year ago the existing military plan for the defence of Australia against the forces of Japan was to make a stand behind the “Brisbane Line.” The Commonwealth’s Labour Minister, Mr Ward, has now revealed that this line ran diagonally from just north of Brisbane to a point just north of Adelaide. On March 17 last General MacArthur said that the Australian war strategy had been drastically revised after he had taken command of the South-West Pacific front. The defence plan at the time of his arrival had conceived that the islands to the north of Australia would be over-run and lost, and that Darwin and North Queensland would be also overrun. Provision had been made for organised resistance behind a line drawn southwest from Brisbane.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1943, Page 4
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149DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1943, Page 4
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