Do you mean economic? Or does it help with posture?

Yeah, where else would you invade from though? It's an island with no neighbours but North, the only land close to it is north, major threats like China are north. The reef would make it hard to go east by sea too I think.

I doubt anyone would bother invading Australia anyway, it's just not worth the effort. Small population probably going to make a minor impact in wars with larger nations and fairly good allies to the north through all those islands you'd have to sail past.

Yeah, invading from the north let's you disembark, setup, use land and sea and air routes, but from the actual east coast would mean a much, much longer trip by sea, the reef causing issues and obviously would be met with heavy resistance.

South coast is just absurdly long detour to pretty much the same scenario as going north or west. One city, and nothing else. Australia's just pretty empty. Size of the US but only like 7 major cities, mostly on the east coast with no major neighbours anywhere but north

From the north coast I think

Kinda like koalas but their diet includes meat and fruit which is higher in calories so they're much more active. They're still slow and clumsy on ground though, so they wait for prey in trees and then jump from there. Generally stay pretty far from cities though

The paw has good penmanship skills

The koala population has taken a beating with bushfires and logging :( and they're pretty lazy, just sleep and eat most of the day.

Probably better to send the drop bears

I heard that's the Australian strategy if someone invades - retreat to the coasts and defend the cities, and let them have the entire desert lol