Ok, so i'm taking this silly topic to its natural conclusion. Let's join the WA secessionist movement and split from Australia. Heck, we'll even take the NT with us. Screw the eastern states.
The new country would simply be called
The Bigger Half and we would have no state borders.
QANTAS would need to rename as QANVICTAS or whatever, who cares. Our national airline would have business class seats from front to back.
Our floral emblem would be the
Atriplex (common name 'Salt Bush' - a small plant that flourishes in deserts locales, such as Lake Eyre). Our faunal emblem would be the
Bilby (indigenous to the deserts of the lands formally known as WA, SA & NT). The Easter Bunny would be outlawed.
We would have 2 layers of government - Federal & Local. To avoid wrangling, Government House would be located equidistant from Adelaide, Perth, & Darwin. Atop Ayers Rock by my reckoning. The immediate surrounding region would be named Salt Bush City.
Our flag would be a crossed Pick & Shovel on a red earth background with
radioactive tailings piled here and there.
Our legal system would be based on the Ghengis Khan School of Governance - Execute 1, Educate 10,000. Dickheads would get the death penalty.
We would have many nuclear warheads (armed with our own uranium) pointed at the 'Old Australia', just in case they think about diverting too much water from the Murray River (do ya feel lucky punk?!?)
Our currency would be made of solid gold, yes, even the notes.
First 3 lines of our national anthem:
We're girt by seas on north, south & west
and girt by dirt from the rest
There's wealth underground, and that's our luck
<insert your own witty 4th line here>
I was a bit grumpy when i started writing this post. Strangely, I feel better now.
Now with Beer Garden for our smoking patrons.
