Leyonhjelm proposes civil war to save WA

Sunday 13 September 2015

From libertarian Parliamentarian, David Leyonhjelm via the AFR:

Western Australia should secede from Australia. If policies affecting WA were decided by the 2½ million West Australians, rather than by 23½ million Australians, those policies would better reflect the needs and aspirations of West Australians. Government is nearly always better when it is more local.

There are no efficiencies coming from policy being delivered for the entire Australian landmass. Most of the government services that West Australians value are delivered by the WA state government, for example by WA doctors, nurses, principals, teachers, social workers, police officers, judges and prison wardens.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.