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It is my general observation that Oz 'feels' a lot of national unity on major issues....I don't hear of NSW inherently distrusting the West, or of Melbourne hating Queensland on general principle...??? Do you have any thing like **Texas** there with a "we should damn well secede" attitude?
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ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha!

Oh Rowan, I'm laughing too hard, you wanna do this one? ;-)


"I don't hear of" - ok, I will not play the "another damned ignorant Yank" card.. :-)

"East Vs West - seceding"

Well, have you heard of 'Hutt River Province" - Google... :-) It ACTUALLY seceded from Australia... produces great wine and postage stamps btw... pays no Australian taxes too...

WA constantly carps that it wants to form its own COUNTRY - well then it would be ruled by a real C... (I'm a Queenslander!)


"North vs South - hatred"

Erm... that's what the followings of Thugball or Thugby, or the various other variations are based on!


"Melboure vs the rest of Australia"

Well actually, both Melbourne AND South Australia think they are the elitist places....


Apart from a much smaller population spread out more over pretty much the same land area as the Continental US, the fewer number of states just means that there are far fewer groups here trying to play the 'nationalist/statist' card against all the others, so I suppose we SEEM more united...