WA goes west

THE Commonwealth Games are on and the Queen’s baton carriers were met with enthusiasm in towns and cities around Australia.
But as all this excitement was happening, Western Australia was separating itself from the Commonwealth.
In 2003 WA passed the Acts Amendment and Repeal (legal practice) Act 2003 that changed more then 120 specific acts and laws, as well as its legal relationship with Australia.
Some of the Specific changes were as follows: the words “in Her Majesty’s Name” replaced by “Under the Public Seal of the State” and “Crown” replaced by “State”.
And the words “Royal Arms” were replaced by “Armoral bearings of the State” and the Second Schedule amended by deleting “Our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her Heirs and successors”, inserting instead “the State of Western Australia”.
More information on this act is available at www.parliament.wa.gov.au
History tells us when the people of a nation transfer sovereignty to the State it marks the beginning of the end of the country.
If you are interested in preserving Australia as the best place in the world for young people to grow up in, and live and raise a family under one flag, one national anthem and one constitution, call me to pledge your support.
John Hompot,
Berwick.