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Secessionists among the minor parties hoping to win seats in WA Parliament at March poll
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.
Key points:
- A new political party is reigniting the secession debate in WA
- WAxit will be running candidates in the March state election
- A long list of other fringe and minor parties will also be vying for seats
While it may have been mulled over during debate around dinner tables last year, secession was never on the mainstream political agenda.
But if it was up to the newly formed WAxit Party, which yesterday launched its March state election campaign, that is exactly what would…
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