Australia already possessed the battlecruiser HMAS Australia before the Washington Naval Treaty. The reply cautions against treating an Australian capital ship as wholly unfamiliar to the governments of the 1910s and 1920s. Their naval funding decisions need to be considered in their own setting.
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Australia already had a capital ship before Washington
HMAS Australia is the immediate historical precedent for discussion of an Australian capital-ship fleet.