TheBanyanTree: Some Muvvers really DO have em!!

[Roger Pye]

I learned something about your state (and Queensland too) yesterday from 
Robin that I hadn't come across before - course, I've only been out here 
40 years! Back in the days of pre-federation (1880-1900) when they were 
working out what sort of parliament was best, how many representatives 
the six states-to-be would have and all that jazz, the colonies of NSW 
and Victoria wanted the number of senators in the upper house to be 
based on the population numbers of each state. What this meant was that 
WA, Qld and SA (South Australia) would have had less senators than NSW 
or Qld because that was where the bulk of the population was.

It didn't happen that way because WA & Qld had the resources (mineral 
wealth etc) that the federation (Commonwealth of Australia) needed to 
operate. So each state in the upper house (the Australian Senate) has 
the same number of senators regardless of the size of their populations.

And of course your state and Qld still do have the resources though I 
think Qld's population is catching up with NSW. However, playing of the 
secession card has been threatened before and hasn't happened yet - and 
one can only cry 'Wolf' so many times before people just laugh and 
ignore it.

As for McManly - only pity is they don't play REAL football down there!!

roger

Woofie wrote:
> Hello Roger, 
> 
> Sunday, May 23, 2010, 7:21:50 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Wot? You mean, you SHOOT wiv real guns and real ammo? And they LET you?
>> My God, no wonder the Western Australian miners 'n' all are revolting!!
> 
>> roger
> 
> 
> Hah!!  Those  revolting  miners have recruited the Woofess to man (err
> woof?)  the  ramparts!  Our state premier (state governor type person)
> has  told us to so do (it is even in a news report, but my browser has
> just  chucked a wobbly over some nasty script or other on a news site,
> so I can't give you the exact quote).
> 
> Yes  folks, Western Australia is rumbling about seceding from the rest
> of  Australia,  yet  again! That's because those Eastern States' folks
> want  to pinch all our goodies, cuz we are very rich in mineral wealth
> etc...
> 
> So..we  are  about  to tear along the dotted line that divides us from
> the  rest  of  Australia...hmm..hope we don't tear too hard and end up
> bumping into Africa....
> 
> W:)
> 
>