worzel

"The WA secessionist movement plans to form a new political party, believing WA’s resources boom and a backlash against Canberra’s workplace laws has created a public appetite for an independent nation in the West."

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=25656

Crackpots! That is all well and good while we are in a boom but we would become a third world nation in a depressed global economy.

JAJ

Nothing new about this idea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessi...tern_Australia

bridie

Does seem a bit mad, but it does make me cross that WA contributes a huge amount to the economy yet gets little back from the federal government....

JAJ

Maybe you should do the math again in years when WA is in recession.

Incidentally, if you're part of the Commonwealth of Australia you shouldn't be thinking in terms of "them and us" - only "us".

bridie

But it very often feels like them and us when most of the concern seems to be centered on the eastern states...

JMHO

NKSK version 2

Good God No!

The federal government is the only thing that keeps me sane in terms of politics here.

For those of you that know WA think about the following over the last year:

1. Performance of the DCD regarding children's welfare
2. Performance of Education department regarding OBE, contracts for mates, cover-ups of teacher-student relationships.
3. State of the health service (e.g. unregistered doctors operating)
4. Brian Burke affair and ministerial corruption.
5. Refusal of upper house to release documents to the corruption commission.
6. the farce over daylight savings (one politician saying that women won't be at home cooking dinner because they will be having a good time on the beach (paraphrase))
7. John D Orazios business affairs.
8. Constant delays and cost over-runs with anything to do with the DPI (union control also)
9. Shelley Archer
10. The way that vehicle inspections are conducted - queues thereof.
11. Stamp duty on houses
12. The slow rate of land release
13. Inexcusable delay in investigating the Esperance lead poisoning

There you go....rattled off from the top of my head from the last 12 months.

bridie

Geelong Gent

Any division then has my full support

Amazulu

14. Inability to approve new sports stadia despite massive public support and having loads of money.
15. Inability to approve any new foreshore developments (I have never known a place to have so many ideas but to do absolutely nothing).
15. Farting around over new licencing laws which still have not been resolved.

I'm sure I'll think of more.

Amazulu

Rightly or wrongly (and I have no desire to see WA become independent), In the eyes of the Federal government, WA only exists to provide mining and LNG royalties so that they can prop up and subsidise the economies of the Eastern States.

marco121068

Is that because Perth is so isolated?

Sue from Manchester

Isn't there a bit of a mining boom here in Queensland also?

NKSK version 2

17. Was it a backlog of 3000 or 7000 mining applications due to administrative chaos?

18. Traffic fines arriving 6 months after the offence due to the implementation of a "new system"

NKSK version 2

The trouble with this line of thought is that it is perpetuated as long the country coninues to view itself as 7 different economies instead of one country with some regional differences.

NKSK version 2

Not so fast.

The Victorian government should also be hanging its head - I know less about the politics but its deal with the Police Union immediately prior to the election was a complete disgrace.

Queensland - well, where do you start? With the health service? With the Palm Island case? Or just with Peter Beattie?

Tasmania - wasn't there some kind of shennanigans with the deputy premier there?


NSW...NSW....NSW. Do they have a government?!