ANALYSIS: The recently returned Albanese Government has just approved a 40-year extension to a huge gas project. Most of that gas will be exported, but it has great domestic significance.
Woodside Energy is looking to invest A$30b in the offshore Browse gasfields, and the extension makes that more likely.
Back in 1933, 66% of voters in Western Australia voted to secede from Australia, which had only been federated just over 30 years before.
Ultimately, that bid for Western Australian independence was foiled by a ruling from a British parliamentary committee, which found that any bid for secession
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