Canterbury Military Muster

Canterbury Declaration of Independence Newstape

Canterbury Provincial Police Gold Escort through the Southern Alps, 1865

 

Why is Australia ‘micronation central’? And do you still have to pay tax if you secede?

 

Would you like to buy a micronation? 

The Principality of Hutt River is on the market. For 50 years, the sprawling 6,100 hectare property, more than 500 kilometers from Perth, styled itself as the “second-largest country in Australia”. 

It was formed in 1970 by Leonard Casley (Prince Leonard), who seceded from Australia following a dispute with the state government over wheat production quotas. Casley died in 2019 and in August 2020, his son, Prince Graeme announced he would sell the family farm to pay a A$3 million tax bill.

Read more here and here

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Suez: The Yellow Fleet trapped by the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Micronation created.

The Treaty of Westphalia