For years people have been wondering what country God belongs to. In WWI, the Germans cried "Gott mit uns", while the British yelled "God save the King", etc. etc. Now at last, the age old question has been answered. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that God is in fact from Queensland. So now you know. Reportedly, also
God occasionally boos the Blues.I also learned another interesting fact about Queensland.
Queenslanders have never forgiven NSW for being part of the founding colony and their secessionist spirit is such that if two trainloads of people had voted differently at federation, the banana benders would not have joined the commonwealth.Yes, that's right, Queenslanders are also known as banana benders. Who cares whether they voted to be in Australia or not?
The issue of Western Australian secession comes up from time to time, though no one takes it seriously.
And there are (were?) a couple of landed eccentrics who declared independence from Australia, styling themselves Prince [somebody] of [name of property].
Oh, and though I've never read the text, apparently the Australian Constitution says that New Zealand may join the Commonwealth of Australia if it ever feels like it.
Comment by Lentz of Goulburn — July 15, 2009 @ 3:12 am