{"id":2166,"date":"2023-09-25T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2023-09-25T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:26:54","slug":"this-state-wanted-to-leave-australia-so-badly-it-had-a-referendum-the-feed-sbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/this-state-wanted-to-leave-australia-so-badly-it-had-a-referendum-the-feed-sbs\/","title":{"rendered":"This state wanted to leave Australia so badly, it had a referendum &#8211; The Feed &#8211; SBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a time when the people of Western Australia were so sold on leaving Australia, they held a state referendum to get a sense check &#8211; and the majority of people voted &#8216;yes&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But despite sustained efforts to separate from the rest of Australia, WA could not pull off &#8220;WAxit&#8221; to create &#8220;Westralia&#8221; (yes, both of those are real terms used over the years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the idea of seceding from the rest of Australia was not a one-off fantasy. It&#8217;s entrenched in WA&#8217;s history &#8211; even before federation &#8211; and the state almost didn&#8217;t join Australia to begin with.<\/p>\n<cite>https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/the-feed\/article\/this-state-wanted-to-leave-australia-so-badly-it-had-a-referendum\/p15epfk0m<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when the people of Western Australia were so sold on leaving Australia, they held a state referendum to get a sense check &#8211; and the majority of people voted &#8216;yes&#8217;. But despite sustained efforts to separate from the rest of Australia, WA could not pull off &#8220;WAxit&#8221; to create &#8220;Westralia&#8221; (yes, &#8230; <a title=\"This state wanted to leave Australia so badly, it had a referendum &#8211; The Feed &#8211; SBS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/this-state-wanted-to-leave-australia-so-badly-it-had-a-referendum-the-feed-sbs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about This state wanted to leave Australia so badly, it had a referendum &#8211; The Feed &#8211; SBS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}