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Post by lighthorseman on Sept 1, 2011 1:30:19 GMT -5
Ontario and Alberta are merely ruses. So are Tasmania and New Zealand. |
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Post by ltfred on Sept 1, 2011 3:22:13 GMT -5
I'm Canadian in name only. I despise... Great Big Sea... Blasphemy! |
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Post by servo on Sept 1, 2011 6:15:49 GMT -5
Ontario and Alberta are merely ruses. So are Tasmania and New Zealand. Not many people know New Zealand is actually an Australian territory, but we deny it to make ourselves look better. Don't tell Julia I said that.  |
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Post by Meshakhad on Sept 1, 2011 20:21:20 GMT -5
Oh please. You know how many states are fake?
Oregon, North Dakota, Maine, New Mexico...
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Sept 1, 2011 21:11:12 GMT -5
Having died of Diphtheria and Cholera countless times while traveling in Oregon, I can tell you that it's very real.
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Post by lighthorseman on Sept 1, 2011 23:22:26 GMT -5
So are Tasmania and New Zealand. Not many people know New Zealand is actually an Australian territory, but we deny it to make ourselves look better. Don't tell Julia I said that. yes, but what's funny is when THEY deny it. *pats NZ on the head with a hefty amount of condescension* there there, of COURSE you're a real nation. Now you go and play with your sheep while the grown ups talk. |
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Post by davedan on Sept 1, 2011 23:27:45 GMT -5
Funnily enough around the time of federation it was originally intended that New Zealand would be part of Australia but that Western Australia would not.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Sept 1, 2011 23:39:28 GMT -5
I'm sure that the people of Western Australia are happy that things turned out differently... all three of then.
(Perth doesn't count as Western Australia for reasons that I just made up.)
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Post by davedan on Sept 1, 2011 23:44:22 GMT -5
Broome, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie?
Edit oh and they aren't happy at the moment because they have lots of money in the ground and if they weren't part of the federation they woudn't have to share?
And they have wine.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Sept 1, 2011 23:51:31 GMT -5
I'd make fun of the silly names, but I live in a province with cities/towns called "Medicine Hat", "Legal", "Vulcan" and "Morinville"...
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Post by davedan on Sept 1, 2011 23:53:37 GMT -5
I'd make fun of the silly names, but I live in a province with cities/towns called "Medicine Hat", "Legal", "Vulcan" and "Morinville"... I want to live in vulcan, or failing that the town named twat |
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Post by lighthorseman on Sept 2, 2011 0:09:33 GMT -5
Funnily enough around the time of federation it was originally intended that New Zealand would be part of Australia but that Western Australia would not. The Maoris legitimately sold the South Island to an Australian wool magnate in the early 1800s. The fact that the South Island at least is not a legitimate Australian State is due only to the capriciousness of the courts. It very nearly coulda been. I am of the opinion that an amalgamation of Australia and NZ at some point in the future is likely. Whther that is something like the unification of East and West Germany, a polyglot model like the UK, or something more akin to the EU, I don't know, but I still think it'll happen. |
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Post by lighthorseman on Sept 2, 2011 0:10:38 GMT -5
I'd make fun of the silly names, but I live in a province with cities/towns called "Medicine Hat", "Legal", "Vulcan" and "Morinville"... I want to live in vulcan, or failing that the town named twat ,_Austria |
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Post by davedan on Sept 2, 2011 0:15:34 GMT -5
Funnily enough around the time of federation it was originally intended that New Zealand would be part of Australia but that Western Australia would not. The Maoris legitimately sold the South Island to an Australian wool magnate in the early 1800s. The fact that the South Island at least is not a legitimate Australian State is due only to the capriciousness of the courts. It very nearly coulda been. I am of the opinion that an amalgamation of Australia and NZ at some point in the future is likely. Whther that is something like the unification of East and West Germany, a polyglot model like the UK, or something more akin to the EU, I don't know, but I still think it'll happen. I think it unlikely that there will be an amalgm between aus/nz. We already have extremely close economic ties. We already don't require Visas to travel into each other's country. They basically rely on our airforce. We are already so closely aligned that any further amalgmation would be pointless. Also wouldn't it make Rugby far too boring. I mean an Anzac team might occasionally lose to the saffers or the poms but other than that the only test would be the lions. |
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Post by ltfred on Sept 2, 2011 0:42:22 GMT -5
Broome, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie? Edit oh and they aren't happy at the moment because they have lots of money in the ground and if they weren't part of the federation they woudn't have to share? And they have wine. Yeah, but they wouldn't have been able to sponge off NSW and Vic for a century* and then complain when they were asked to temporarily do the same thing^. * NSW and Vic always pay more tax than they get in federal outlays, as they do right now. The biggest deadbeats are Tasmania and the Northern Territory. ^ Hilariously, the premier complains about NSW and Vic, calling them deadbeat states. As pointed out above, NSW and Vic have never recieved more in tax than they paid in benefits, unlike WA. Funnily enough around the time of federation it was originally intended that New Zealand would be part of Australia but that Western Australia would not. Australia was in depression and NZ was booming. They were afraid of Aussies exploiting the strong NZ economy to boost our own. And we would have done it, too. |
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