Secessionists among the minor parties hoping to win seats in WA Parliament at March poll
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JanJanuary 2021 at 4:23am
The debate over whether WA should break away from the rest of Australia goes back a long way. Here secessionists hold a proposed flag for the state in 1934.
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Western Australia was turned into an island within an island for the better part of 2020 as part of the state s COVID-19 strategy, prompting jokes about whether WA should just go ahead and make its hard border permanent by seceding from the rest of the country.
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