Admittedly not a ground war, but that's not entirely true:
> In total, there were 97 air attacks on northern Australia, though air reconnaissance was carried out over the region by Axis Powers through much of 1944.
> German and Japanese surface raiders and submarines operated in New Zealand waters on several occasions in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945, sinking a total of four ships while Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew over Auckland and Wellington preparing for a projected Japanese invasion of New Zealand.
Admittedly not a ground war, but that's not entirely true:
> In total, there were 97 air attacks on northern Australia, though air reconnaissance was carried out over the region by Axis Powers through much of 1944.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_air_raids_on_Australi...
and
> German and Japanese surface raiders and submarines operated in New Zealand waters on several occasions in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1945, sinking a total of four ships while Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew over Auckland and Wellington preparing for a projected Japanese invasion of New Zealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealan...
If we're counting air attacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
> on the continent
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