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Speaker 1: Gold.

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Speaker 2: It's Jonesy and de Amanda's jam Nation driving you home.

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Speaker 1: Wax it please, I've been asked to do that before.

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Speaker 1: This is West Australia Exit, like Brexit, but wax it.

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Speaker 1: This is what has reared its head again. Apparently one

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Speaker 1: hundred years ago the San Gropers as they're known in

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Speaker 1: Western Australia, voted overwhelmingly to leave the Federation to secede,

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Speaker 1: but thanks to the Commonwealth, that didn't happen. But it's

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Speaker 1: back on the table again. So there's been a four

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Speaker 1: hundred page manifesto that's been published with someone a lawyer.

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Speaker 2: I think manifesto has always said a little bit nutsough,

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Speaker 2: don't they.

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Speaker 1: Well, this guy and a number of his colleagues, this

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Speaker 1: man's a former barrister. He has joined other people to

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Speaker 1: come up with a very detailed plan about how this

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Speaker 1: can happen. And as they say here, imagine living in

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Speaker 1: a country with no income tax, ocean sunsets over white

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Speaker 1: sandy beaches, and enough natural resources to fuel half the

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Speaker 1: world's industry. Would be like to buy, Well, this is

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Speaker 1: what West Australia has always.

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Speaker 2: Fed, without all the crazy countries around you.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is what Western Strada has always felt that

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Speaker 1: the resources that by happenstance are under their soil belonged

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Speaker 1: to them, and how dire the rest of the country

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Speaker 1: make all this money from it.

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Speaker 2: When I first started my radio dream, I got the

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Speaker 2: job at six Ka Kartha, and.

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Speaker 1: I had explained, Watha.

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Speaker 2: Is exactly on the other side of the country, opposite

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Speaker 2: Mackay so Queensleay, Mackay Carrath Review. It's above the twenty

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Speaker 2: sixth parallel.

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Speaker 1: I could not be more northwest.

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Speaker 2: So you get a you get a good tax break.

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Speaker 2: But I did had no idea. The guy rang me up.

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Speaker 2: Would you like the job? Of course I would love

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Speaker 2: the job. I just presumed Kartha was like an hour

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Speaker 2: outside of Perth. It's like a fair drive and a

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Speaker 2: fair flight. Even when I got there, I got into

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Speaker 2: a cab and the cabby was the loveliest cab drive

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Speaker 2: in the world. And he took me to my cousin's place,

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Speaker 2: who lived in Como in Western just in Perth there

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Speaker 2: and he said, well, I told him what I was

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Speaker 2: doing and all my hopes and juries, and he said

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Speaker 2: good luck. Two years later I came back to come

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Speaker 2: back to work in another radio station on the Eastern seaboard.

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Speaker 2: You know who pick smeled from the airport, someone unrelated

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Speaker 2: the exact same cab driver. What and he said, yeat

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Speaker 2: a mate, And he said, what's going on? I said,

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Speaker 2: I've got a job over in New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: He gets good, You do you think there's only one

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Speaker 1: cab driver.

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Speaker 2: It was just you know what I'm saying. It was

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Speaker 2: I really loved my time in Western Australia. Well, I

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Speaker 2: love my time in Karratha. I didn't spend much time

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Speaker 2: in Perth. I spent about two days altogether when I

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Speaker 2: was there. I spent two years in Karafa.

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Speaker 1: That well, what they're saying here in this manifesto is

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Speaker 1: that in a way Western Australia has that the eastern

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Speaker 1: Eastern states have been an abusive husband to Western Australia

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Speaker 1: and saying that West Australia has always suffered. It was

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Speaker 1: clear Aus Australia has not received a good deal ever

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Speaker 1: since Federation. The effect on the remaining states of Western

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Speaker 1: Australia seceeding taking its billions of mining revenue away would

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Speaker 1: be dire. Most populations in the West field that they

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Speaker 1: are serfs in a new feudal situation and don't know

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Speaker 1: how to get out. So we put this on our

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Speaker 1: socials this morning, saying, hey, how do you feel about this?

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Speaker 1: Whether you're from Western Australia or from the Eastern States,

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Speaker 1: how do you feel about WA seceding? Some interesting comments

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Speaker 1: why didn't Quebec separate? This is from Frank. Why didn't

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Speaker 1: Quebec separate from Canada? They found out the true cost

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Speaker 1: of it. Print your own money, start your own postal systems,

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Speaker 1: start from medical system et cetera, et cetera, and you gona.

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Speaker 2: Put up some sort of fence I would imagine be

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Speaker 2: long fence.

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Speaker 1: Terry has said, bring it on. I'm Perth born and

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Speaker 1: bred and raised and I loathe the hillbilly Eastern States

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Speaker 1: with a dangerous passion, but not careless. Where do I

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Speaker 1: sign up? And Anthony has said stupid post stupid idea,

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Speaker 1: A nice a mixed bag of thoughts, so that that

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Speaker 1: will still be up on our socials. Yeah, if maybe

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Speaker 1: you're from Western Australia, maybe you have feelings even though

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Speaker 1: you're not from Western Australia.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda on go