Waxit - It's time for the WA succession movement again

[Messenger]

WA are clearly unhappy that the tide has gone out on mining royalties and they are getting a poor cut of the GST revenue so the WA Libs are investigating "financial independence" from the rest of Australia.

What say you all. Could WA go it alone?

 

[kwikfix]

Love to see it happen but it will not happen now or ever, all hot air.

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

It will never happen, I don't know why people continually bleat about WA's secession from Australia.

As a positive, it will make West Coast's trips east every second week sound so much more dramatic if they're considered international flights.

 

[Admiral Byng]

Fresh from an utter drubbing at the last state election, the WA Liberal party are looking for new and innovative ways to put themselves further out of touch from the public.

 

[Fire]

If its anything like the results in the 30s when it managed to get up, then it would open a lot of ethical questions.

Back then Perth wanted to leave, but the rest of the state didnt. If it happened again, I see no reason why they should have to give up their citizenships against their will simply because they happen to fall within a state which no longer existed.

If perth voted to leave then good luck to them, but if the rest of the state wants to stay then they should do it alone.

 

[Reynolds Number]

Might waxit the legs soon.

 

[Theseventhhamster]

******* lol, sponge off NSW/VIC for 100 years then have a relatively short boom where you start to pay back your debt and you get all pissy. Give it another decade or so and get square then you can * off into irrelevance.

 

[Freo Big Fella]

******* lol, sponge off NSW/VIC for 100 years then have a relatively short boom where you start to pay back your debt and you get all pissy. Give it another decade or so and get square then you can **** off into irrelevance.

Always love this logic.

Happy to consider paying it if we get a rebate for the stupidly high tariffs we paid for 100+ years to keep Victorians and South Australians making inferior cars and clothes.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Petulant.

This will go nowhere. Nobody there views themselves as not Australian. WA isn't Scotland or Quebec.

WA are clearly unhappy

The Liberal Party isn't WA.

 

[Ripper]

Always love this logic.

Happy to consider paying it if we get a rebate for the stupidly high tariffs we paid for 100+ years to keep Victorians and South Australians making inferior cars and clothes.

And most pf the so called aid was the Trans railway which was mostly beneficial to Victorian Industry.

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Always love this logic.

Happy to consider paying it if we get a rebate for the stupidly high tariffs we paid for 100+ years to keep Victorians and South Australians making inferior cars and clothes.

You're net recipients over Australia's history regardless of spin. Good for you paying your way for most of a generation. Like I said, pay your debt then you can be a fully independent cultural backwater.

 

[Messenger]

Always love this logic.

Happy to consider paying it if we get a rebate for the stupidly high tariffs we paid for 100+ years to keep Victorians and South Australians making inferior cars and clothes.

And those tariffs kept people in work, who paid taxes that contributed to government outlays.

 

[Freo Big Fella]

You're net recipients over Australia's history regardless of spin. Good for you paying your way for most of a generation. Like I said, pay your debt then you can be a fully independent cultural backwater.

Yeah, nah.

I actually think we should stick around and up our spending to even more unsustainable levels. That way the system will reward us like it rewards Hobart and Adelaide.

 

[masai]

Will never happen.

WA Libs are in the gutter, they have b... all ideas of how to climb out.

Let this item roll through to the keeper.

 

[Power Raid]

WA are clearly unhappy that the tide has gone out on mining royalties and they are getting a poor cut of the GST revenue so the WA Libs are investigating "financial independence" from the rest of Australia.

What say you all. Could WA go it alone?

WA should walk from the commonwealth along with NT and Queensland. We should also build a wall and make South Australia pay for it.......or at least build it.

 

[Power Raid]

******* lol, sponge off NSW/VIC for 100 years then have a relatively short boom where you start to pay back your debt and you get all pissy. Give it another decade or so and get square then you can **** off into irrelevance.

Incorrect

The racism white Australia policy just meant WA didn't get its prorate entitlement as the nation didn't count blacks

 

[Power Raid]

******* lol, sponge off NSW/VIC for 100 years then have a relatively short boom where you start to pay back your debt and you get all pissy. Give it another decade or so and get square then you can **** off into irrelevance.

Incorrect

The racism white Australia policy just meant WA didn't get its prorata entitlement as the nation didn't count blacks in the distribution

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Obviously this isn't going to happen, but the GST distribution thing really does need to be fixed. and no doubt will be, as soon as NSW or Vic's percentage starts falling.

 

[_007_]

Nobody in WA wants this. It is just the delusional WA Liberal party's pathetic attempt to regain relevance.

 

[King Brown]

I don't know why people from the eastern states get so smug towards WA when the entire driver of Victorian and NSW economies is putting up ticky tacky apartments financed by a private debt binge.

I know which boom will truly end in tears and it ain't the one involving mining

 

[Gough]

Just another reminder of how delusional the conservative wing of the Liberal Party is. I only saw it briefly but some of the other proposals they put forward for debate were pretty out there as well.

 

[Elroo]

WA should walk from the commonwealth along with NT and Queensland. We should also build a wall and make South Australia pay for it.......or at least build it.

Another Power fail clueless post!

 

[sherb]

I am more than happy for the WA Liberal Party to secede from Australia. And, hopefully, the entire Liberal Party would follow suit.

 

[Ice-Wolf]

WAxit? WAxit? It's Wexit you stupid sandgropers. Can't even get your campaigns right and you expect to be able to handle the money.

 

[Power Raid]

Another Power fail clueless post!

You're right, SA wouldn't have the funds or energy to build it.