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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1933, April 8 | |
| Western Australia voted 2–1 to secede from the commonwealth. Together with South Australia and Tasmania, the other agricultural states, Western Australia had long protested against the “incidence of federation” and had demanded abatement of taxes or some form of federal relief. The government thereupon appointed a grants commission to investigate the claims of aggrieved states and to decide on compensation. Meanwhile (1934, March) Western Australia sent a petition to the king asking for legislation to effect secession. The British Parliament, however, refused to accept the petition without the previous approval of the Australian people as a whole. | 1 |
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| The Australian government assumed authority over about one-third of the Antarctic continent (an area roughly the size of Australia itself). | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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