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    End of an Empire, Hutt River to rejoin Australia

    What could be considered one of the oddest chapters of our history, Leonard Casley set up the independent State of Hutt River over a dispute over wheat quota's in 1970. He ' abdicated ' to his son Graeme in 2017, and passed away last year.

    End of an empire: Hutt River to rejoin Australia after 50 years
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

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    A bit sad but I suppose that even princes need a workable succession plan, as opposed to a seccession plan


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    He certainly was a character.. my betrothed was working sampling at the CBH grain receival where they used to bring their grain in... some was, err, quite below par...
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    Absolute legend,
    Shame the govt eventually beat him.

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    Luckily we still have some other micronations left Australia has one of the largest number of micronations in the world - ABC News

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    We stayed a night in 2018 on our farewell to WA trip. It was interesting to wander around the place and read the history of it. Not a bad campsite either, facilities a bit basic but certainly cheap enough, $5 p/p from memory. Got our passports stamped as well.

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    I wonder what legal and administrative problems would have arisen if the Sandgropers had managed to secede from Australia and form the People's Democratic Republic of Twiggy & Gina leaving Hutt River as a self governing province maybe.
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