[AJames]

Sorry. I requested no political arguments for the sake of harmony (for a change by me), but I realised in the last post that I have also broken my own request!

NOTE: The only reason I've said that Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand should not have separated from New South Wales, is that it would have made one larger bureaucracy which might have made an even greater southern land. As to New Zealand declining the offer of not joining our Federation probably might have given us more clout in avoiding the errors like disaster of Gallipoli decided by the imperial British. Of course, the biggest problem is that we we wouldn't have the Wallaby-All Black rivalry , and Australian Rules would have to be called something else! Secondly, the number of sheep between us, would top 200 million!