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‘Westralia shall be free!’ How Western Australia’s secessionists stoked British fears the Empire was at risk

  • Written by Benjamin Wilson Mountford, Associate Professor in History, Australian Catholic University
‘Westralia shall be free!’ How Western Australia’s secessionists stoked British fears the Empire was at riskState Library of Western Australia, call number: BA428/1

Around 90 years ago, two-thirds of Western Australian voters voted in favour of leaving the Commonwealth at a state referendum.

This 1933 result – often seen as a protest vote against the economic and political disadvantages imposed on WA and exacerbated by the Great Depression –...

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