Sorry Distiller, please forgive my ignorance, but could you elaberate more as to what you mean!

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Pioneer

Sorry. I mean everything flows from the HQJOC. Why build a dedicated carrier air FAA when the RAAF flies already the right aircraft and the main task would be to carrier qualify the pilots and get the maintainence and other support staff in shape to transfer to a carrier for some time. Chances are low that Australia would fight both expeditionary and at home, so why not use RAAF assets (SHornets) to fly off carriers (in the fashion of “one morning …” these would probably some kind of real aux straight deck carriers, based on some fast container ship)? I’d say that could be done within 18 month, in any case within the time it would take to adapt/build a carrier.