With the news of wartime production heightening in the good ol U of K, it's only natural that Australia would begin to do the same, allocating some funds from misc gay nerd stuff and putting it towards war-time productions, beginning to produce cruisers and battleships, and arming themselves with generic ass Lee Enfield's and the occasional Vickers Gun and all that other boring crap.
Warship factories find themselves taking a rise in Australia with the funding and stuff.