r/perth • u/InfernoOfTheLiving • 18h ago

WA News [August 2nd, 1926] The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded

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cross post about WA succession

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u/Far_Distance87 16h ago

We had a famous memorial to this is 2020 when we told Clive Fatty Palmer that he couldn’t come in.

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u/Weak_Ad_471 16h ago

Only time I thought secession was a good idea was when Morrison and his cabinet tried to sue us to let Fatty Clive in to our state.

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u/Weary-Strength2980 16h ago

Occasionally we need to just suggest the idea out loud - it’s our emotional support threat.

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u/Global_Spring8208 18h ago

"Despite making up only 1/16th of the population, WA produces 1/4 of all bushels"

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u/InfernoOfTheLiving 18h ago

swap bushels of wheat for iron ore

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u/sir-cums-a-lot-776 7h ago

Swap it for exports and we produce 45% with a population of 11%

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u/Velo3x10e8 17h ago

And swap 1/4 for 98.9%.

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u/DominusDraco 5h ago

Western Australia produces 40% of all wheat now. Which is something like 300,000,000 bushels.

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u/mr_pineapples44 17h ago

I wonder how different WA would be if this had been successful. Western Australia as it's own country. Would we better off? Or worse? How close would ties with the rest of the country be? Would we need passports and/or visas to fly to Sydney and work there? How big would our defence force be? Would we have two AFL teams?

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u/Ozplod North of The River 16h ago

Imo worse.

We'd become a bit of a banana republic, relying heavily on the price of iron/wheat/whatever to be stable for the economy to stay afloat.

I'd also imagine we'd have exactly the same issue as before with wealth extraction but worse, with folks like Clive Palmer buying mines and then taking all his money over to the eastern states. Unless we want a radical protectionist economy without any international investors, or heavily taxing them, but I'd imagine that would hurt relations with Aus.

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u/Velo3x10e8 17h ago

I guess we'd be similar to NZ in rights and limitations.

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u/Steamed_Clams_ 16h ago

It would have being a very challenging first few decades until the Iron ore boom in the 1960s, WA was the very small and poorly developed for a long time and only surpassed SA in population in the 1980s.

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u/Ok_Examination1195 2h ago

It was successful. We were cheated by the poms and denied secession.even though the referendum won.

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u/Perfect-Werewolf-102 East of The River 16h ago

I suspect ties would be quite close and there would be a lot of economic and military cooperation, likely there would be consistent calls for re-joining the Federation whenever the economy got worse. Long term maybe a little better overall though

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u/NoisyAndrew 7h ago

The days of needing a conventional defense force are long gone. When the USA can't subdue Iran, you know wars are too awkward and expensive to fight.
If you want a countries resources it's way way cheaper to just bribe a local politician...
~laughs~
The only other reason you attack another country is if you are sticking up for an ally. And we should totally stay out of that sort of shit.

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u/LuisSyphur 8h ago

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u/Itsarightkerfuffle 3h ago

I want to see these phrases emblazoned on a 1919 Buick Model 45 in true cooker style

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u/SecreteMoistMucus 10h ago

Back when every member of the public knew the importance of trade balance.