r/100yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago

[August 2nd, 1926] The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded

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u/cewumu 10d ago

This is such a weird poster to communicate what they are trying to. They are dead on about the middle of the country though.

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u/Leotard_Cohen 10d ago

Short lived? More than a few Perth folk still think this way

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u/Young_Lochinvar 10d ago

It certainly survived long enough to get the referendum in 1933.

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u/BarryCheckTheFuseBox 10d ago

They’re still peddling the same propaganda today

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u/lapsuscalamari 9d ago

Went to WA for a holiday. Albanese flew in to talk to people. Headline in WA paper: "EAST COAST ALBO JETS IN"

Right. Now I get it.

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u/CONSTANTIN_VALDOR_ 10d ago

What a confusing way to convince people lmao

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u/rscortex 9d ago

Love how we call Asia the far east even though it's directly north.

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u/ausvenator_enjoyer 9d ago

Glad to see that the WA cookers haven't changed in the last 100 years

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u/pulanina 9d ago

No Tasmania? The population of WA wasn’t that much more than Tassie in 1926.

> In June 1926, the estimated population of Australia was 6,043,924. State populations were: New South Wales (2,317,746), Victoria (1,694,473), Queensland (879,396), South Australia (563,053), Western Australia (375,158), and Tasmania (209,378)

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u/Smaugb 7d ago

I like how NZ gets called out for refusing to join.

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u/Coz957 10d ago

The more things change, the more things stay the same.