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...and it's also been fragmented into effectively 8 separate "countries" since 2020 when each of the state premiers declared emergency (effectively dictatorial) powers for themselves and started running each state in very different ways.

Comments like "still a convict colony" for a story about the state of South Australia don't even make any sense! Same continent, totally separate colony, no convicts!

...and it's also been fragmented into effectively 8 separate "countries" since 2020 when each of the state premiers declared emergency (effectively dictatorial) powers for themselves and started running each state in very different ways. Comments like "still a convict colony" for a story about the state of South Australia don't even make any sense! Same continent, totally separate colony, no convicts!

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They report on social agendas, like BLM and #meToo, like the whole of America is united and throwing a huge celebration but southern states have fallen behind and need help to catch up. For day to day politics they tend to quote the appropriate state governor* though.

*Side note: our 'premiers' are equivalent to your 'governors'. We do additionally have state governors with viceregal duties as a safeguard, but their main job is to fire the premier and dissolve the parliament if the state government goes insane. Unfortunately it's usually the premier who appoints the governor who serves their interests, so this never happens.