WE SATISFY YOUR TRAVEL URGES BY EXPLORING POLITICAL ISSUES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE!
Phoebe Levin is not not a secessionist.
WA/ustralia It has been a great year of politicontiki; we have travelled from Nepal to Paraguay, from South Korea to New Hampshire. But for this, our final voyage, we are coming home: to the great state of Western Australia. The secessionist movement in WA has been a feature of the state’s political landscape, well, forever. Waxing and waning in favour, secessionism rotates between being a sensationalised heading in a periodical on a slow news day, to rising to prominence as a national issue, and then fading back into the depths of media obscurity. Nevertheless, it never seems to stray far from WA’s collective public consciousness, leaving me to wonder, why is this obsession with state sovereignty so pertinent on the west coast? Developing from the sentiment that the Federal government is so far away from WA that they’ve undoubtedly forgotten about us, the secessionist movement postulates that the west should break off from the rest of the country and realise its potential as a selfgoverning dominion. Likely being a West Australian resident yourself, you’re probably familiar with the rhetoric that our state is an underappreciated, unsupported Cinderella state — contributing 20
In 2022, Pelican will be replaced by a daily town crier atop Winthrop Hall
