Liberal Democrats MP Tim Quilty first proposed the move dubbed “Rexit”, meaning “regional exit”, in his maiden speech to parliament in 2018 where he called for country Victoria and NSW to join forces and split from their capitals.last year after Mr Quilty requested “independent advice” about the “economic character” of a new state.
He would then host similar events in Rutherglen on March 24 and Tallangatta on April 8, before taking the idea to Shepparton and Bright later this year.Mr Quilty told NCA NewsWire these regional centres had been “overlooked by city-focused governments”.“All of these locations are border regions, a long way from Dan Andrews’ focus on Melbourne, and they have all been subject to the destruction of border closures, snap lockdowns and unnecessary COVID restrictions.
A campaign to have a new Australia state will start in Wodonga this week – one of the areas included in the radical proposal.Mr Quilty said he was floating two models for the proposed new state, the first being northern regional Victoria combined with southern regional NSW. But the Victorian government rejected claims it had “forgotten” regional Victoria and said the harsh COVID-19 restrictions were needed to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Let's call it a real dinkum Aussie name. I propose Shitcan.
Wankers wake up not going to happen
Google Centralia for a previous brain fart
Where does this rubbish come from.
Instead of working to have the Regional Dvp Minister deliver more for country Victoria, this fantasist want's to tilt at Rexit windmills and burn it all down. An attention seeking exercise that will never get up and diverts resources from advancing achievable solutions.
Interesting how Nth East was left out? Towns like Mansfield are 3 hrs away from Melbourne.
Can we marry our cousin's?
Has anyone seen the WA State... its big!...poor MarkMcGowanMP look at what he has to deal with!...plus the diversity 😉 auspol
What crap
Requires a referendum I believe so never gonna happen
Loser Victorians.
I think WA-xit is likely to happen before this does.
State premiers have all the power in Australia. I’m not surprised those politicians want to create as many states as they can out of Australia.
They will be like the NT.....
Wonderful more politicians just what our nation needs
Just remove Melbourne
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What a load of old cobblers. What utter rubbish. These people who come up these ideas.... are they playing with a full deck? Seriously, are they?
Who is this goose. It ain’t going to happen. We should focus on being a republic.
He's a Liberal Democrat, therefore insane. E.g. David Leyonhjelm
Look over there ... distraction
What an attempt at distraction.
Quilty is feeling more irrelevant now than he did when he was a councillor. Got to get his name out there somehow.
This is because the Liberals can’t win any real states and the one they do have is fucked, they need to make a new one to actually have a shot 🤡
Almost the same level of stupidity with the WAxit idea here in Perth pathetic
Conservative Drytopia
I bet this genius thought he’d had a rooly smart idea? Bless.
great distraction - don’t know how you do it. Will that be a state that all the sexual abusers can go and live in - and they could abuse each other within The Rule of Law
I'm so close to unfollowing this news twitter account...
What a ridiculous and laughable idea. What is it with Tims?
Unless this gets approval from the AFL, it’s doomed.
Any chance they can take Broadmeadows with them?
Special people. Let them stump up for the Constitutional Q these muppets would have to write. Dr.Seuss has more chance of getting on the best sellers list
dumb as.. they going to pay for roads education etc?
This is a stitch up, surely.
Because Brexit has gone so well 🙄😂😂😂
Haven’t you people actually got important things to report? There are people in our country who are being subjected to abuse, poverty, and marginalisation, and you idiots think this stupidity deserves column inches....FFS
FFS...get a life.
good luck with that!
Hmmm. Yeah, nah.
Classic 'deflection'! Taking the heat from Morrison, Reynolds and Porter.
Hahah getting sick of Melbourne huh? Yeah, not surprising.
Every few years someone starts a campaign to separate Southern and Northern Queensland. It goes nowhere, so I wouldn’t get too excited about this nugget.
Is there no fucktwittery that News won't publicise?
What an absurd idea.
All of the things going on in the world, and this clown wants us to focus on this Our taxes at work...
just stopped following news dot com...this story takes the cake.
more fake news .
What a 🐓head
Who writes this bullshit
North Qld should be it’s own state so that SEQ can get daylight saving.
Maybe Dan Andrews wants to sack his chief health Officer if that's who is advising him wrongly to lock down the entire state
Don’t think combining the regional areas from each state will work, although the idea of separating greater Sydney and Melbourne into their own city-states doesn’t sound too bad.
Well I live in one of those listed NSW hubs and damned if I want to live in some new crappy state they want to create. Maybe ask the people affected as well. It will never happen anyway...
🤣 Where do you get this from?
I thought hmm😏😏😏until I read it was lnp idea everything they touch or start turns into a major cluster fuk
It is not April 1st yet?
How did I know it would be a Tim who works for the lnp who would come up with this. Bereft of brains.
Eildon murrindindi, Mansfield shires should also be included
Well, this will never happen.. but while we are at the table, let’s make Broken Hill part of SA 💪🏻
Omg what what are you all smoking FFS
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