HMAS Westralia paid off at Sydney after steaming 120,978 miles in naval service. She subsequently provided a service between Sydney and Kure for the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces from December 1947 until April 1949 with a merchant seaman crew. She was then chartered to the British Ministry of Transport for use as a Troop Carrier and left Sydney in August 1949 and after service in the Mediterranean returned to Sydney in March 1950. Reconversion for peacetime service was again begun and on 27 March 1951 Westralia was returned to her owners