http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11218341%255E2862,00.html

Mildura seeks to quit state
Peter Mickelburough
29oct04

MILDURA will investigate options to secede from Victoria.

Mildura Rural City Council decided last night to examine a proposal by councillor Vernon Knight to secede from Victoria and align with either South Australia or New South Wales.

It will consider the legalities, costs and benefits of the rural city of more than 50,000 people seceding from Victoria.

It comes after massive protests led by the council against a state government decision to locate a toxic waste dump at Nowingi, 55km south of the town, which councillors say would jeopardise its thriving farm sector.

Cr Knight said the waste dump was the last straw after continued neglect of regional Victoria by the government.

"We're not going to have the toxic dump under any circumstances and if we have got to move the state border in order to ensure that we don't, then that's something we ought to consider," Cr Knight said.

"Premier Steve Bracks should get to Mildura now and start talking before he needs a visa to do so."

The State Government has identified a site at Hattah-Nowingi, about 40km south of Mildura, for a toxic waste dump.

But constitutional experts yesterday said there was no chance Mildura could leave Victoria.

"Under the constitution, the consent of a state is needed before its territory is altered," professor of government and constitutional law at Curtin University, Greg Craven, said.

:rofl:

What a joke!

Afew years ago the opposite was planned... the NSW township of Wentworth wanted to become apart of Victoria. I remember the border change to split at the Murray-Darling intersection, going up the Darling River about 50 kilometers north then cutting west in a straight line.

This is the reason State Governments don't work - Why are people in Mildura having something imposed on them from a Government in Melbourne, I actually support their cause - whoever is dumping the waste should think about dumping it closer to the people who are producing it! I live within 30 minutes of an Oil Refinery, An Abbatoir and a Sewerage Farm and I don't mind, but nobody is trying to grow crops in these areas, cut Mildura a little slack.

Whoever is producing the waste should be disposing of it in their own backyard - not somebody elses.

well victoria was ment to be much bigger, the story i heard, was that it was some french cartographer, who got the murry, river and some other river with m, mixed up. So wagga wagga, would be in Vic, and Canberra would be only about 100-200km from the border, maybe less.

But this, its a joke.

^maybe the Murrumbidgee?

A couple of months ago, there was a plan for Surfers to secede. It was laughed out to the sea.

Quite possibly SA's last chance of having population growth this century.

This is the reason State Governments don't work - Why are people in Mildura having something imposed on them from a Government in Melbourne, I actually support their cause - whoever is dumping the waste should think about dumping it closer to the people who are producing it! I live within 30 minutes of an Oil Refinery, An Abbatoir and a Sewerage Farm and I don't mind, but nobody is trying to grow crops in these areas, cut Mildura a little slack.

Whoever is producing the waste should be disposing of it in their own backyard - not somebody elses.

Well, if it's radioactive waste, it's rightful home would probably be SA. Olympic Dam produces 7% of the world's uranium, and is undergoing an expansion that will make it the largest uranium mine in the world.

Quite possibly SA's last chance of having population growth this century.

You can have em. I don't particularly want them.