Australia’s New Northern State

A GRAND VISION TO BREATH NEW LIFE INTO THE COMMONWEALTH

When I started thinking about this it seemed like a cockamamie idea. But the more I looked into it, the more it made sense. Everything seems to fall into place.

What if the Northern Territory absorbed the Kimberley region and northern Queensland to become the seventh state of Australia?

This is an inter-generational project that could give Australians a renewed sense of purpose. It’s an opportunity to prove we’re a ‘can do’ people.

There will be disagreements, push back and disbelief. Nothing major is achieved without the combined efforts of many people. It will go through a great deal of scrutiny as well it should. Only if it has merit will it succeed and only as long as there is good will behind the criticism. Compromises will be necessary and there will be horse-trading and deals made. Please read about it and join the conversation by responding to the poll at the end of this page and/or add your comments.

It is appropriate that this post goes out as Cyclone Alfred brings the northern tropics to Brisbane. It’s looking like that once-in-50-year cyclone that last came through in January 1974, causing floods I remember watching on TV from Melbourne and that people here still talk about.

So, here it is… (click the title)

Capricornia

Capricornia ties a bow on the Commonwealth and puts the final touches to our Federation by creating a new state in the north that combines the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the northern third of Queensland. The new state of Capricornia is a strategic development project to improve utilization of the tropical north and enable the population to adapt to climate change by allowing migration from the drying, heating south to live in tropical conditions in comfort in Earthships with solar powered air conditioning. The project will unite Australians and Aborigines in a common sense of purpose and invigorate the nation in a can-do attitude. Capricornia will have the resources and population to sustain itself economically and provide better regional security in coordinating Australian Defence Forces to protect the nation’s vulnerable northern flank.

Simon Cole