The states we’re in

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  • Published 20080603
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We are the same people sprung from the same race. We bear allegiance to the same throne. Our ideas, our religion – everything, in fact – is common. There is nothing to keep us apart. We are all one people, and why should we be divided by imaginary lines drawn on a map, which in a great many instances are drawn haphazard?

– Sir John Forrest, Premier, Western Australia, 1896

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