Originally Posted by 
V8Ian
				 
			Until Lang's compass went haywire, WA was consistently a net receiver of the eastern states charity. 
Having various valuable commodities underground is not a skill, or reason to gloat and pat oneself on the back, it's pure tin arsedness.
Once it was decided to dig up these bits and bobs, you needed the eastern populace to either FIFO or reside at the coalface, to help you out.
When the other states were propping up the west, we didn't hear you bleating and constantly pointing out which way the dollars were flowing.
We're a Commonwealth, that, in simple terms means, one for all and all for one. 
Next time you want to go on a bagging spree, I suggest you don't bag the people who propped you up, for over sixty years. In other words, look right down the back of your yard.