"No people nor part of a people should be held in a political arrangement that is contrary to its aspirations and rights. This is among the oldest liberal principles. It's called self determination. It's a path for peace. This new book presents the case beautifully as it applies to Australia."

“Secession by Western Australia is the most exciting and hopeful book for Australia’s future that I’ve read since returning after a lifetime spent serving the development needs of the international community. A ray of hope for a nation that has fallen into a quagmire of lost bearings and opportunity in this once ‘lucky country’. The book maps the way out, with WA taking the lead.

It lays out a complete roadmap, practical plan to seize development potential, and model Constitution that would create a citizenry controlled modern state, where all rights and freedoms are legally enforceable and imbedded in the constitution, and where governance is devolved as much as possible to local communities and at all levels kept lean, transparent, fully legally accountable and observable real-time by the citizenry, with potential for corruption minimised.

For Australia’s younger generations and young at heart this is ‘the promised new land’ they have been yearning for. It’s a chance to enjoy the full fruits of their labour in exciting new tax-free careers and business opportunities made possible by leveraging off the state’s outstanding resource base, and to own their own home, receiving priority treatment by a constitutionally-controlled banking sector.

With a totally foreign exchange backed currency and fiscal discipline enshrined in the constitution, WA’s new currency would be amongst the world’s strongest, and with minimised regulatory barriers, the state would be a magnet for world investors in value-adding industrial development.

Vistas of new investment opportunity would emerge through deepened commitment to developing strategic stockpiles of essentials, and new technologies, hubs and/or corridors serving medicine, mining, transport, water catchment, renewable energy, agriculture and defence. Alliances and treaties would [be] preserved .. and other defence arrangements in which WA already figures significantly. Those who flock to the new west would seize a ‘new beginnings’ agenda unlike any available anywhere in the world.”

"Secession by Western Australia is a book about big ideas that are firmly grounded in reality, law, economics, and the practice of the possible, and written by serious minded big thinkers who understand their respective areas of expertise.

Secession is the ultimate expression of what my life's work is about: The practice of civil disobedience in the modern age. 

History teaches that the limits of government power are enforced in the end by only one thing: The people reaching the limit of their obedience. Secession is the logical and ultimate expression of peaceful disobedience. It's the strongest way of saying 'for the last time, no!' without the need for bloodshed.

Secession by Western Australia makes the case that the time has come for West Australia to say "for the last time, no!" and at a minimum the arguments and frameworks laid out in these pages will stretch your mind to see possibilities and opportunities like never before.

This book should be considered essential reading for every Australian, West or East, who truly cares about the future of this once-and-will-be-again great nation.

Think Free"

— Authorship Team

“Rules, laws and conventions are necessary. However, to avoid corrosion and corruption, any system of rules and laws must adapt to the changing circumstances of the times. Such change must be carefully considered and even more carefully implemented, so as to be truly beneficial. This book presents a thoughtful and gripping case for such a careful and considered change. This is essential reading for anyone interested in law, sociology, nation-building, Federalism or, in general, the well-being of the Australian people going forward”.

Julian Gillespie has reimagined how the Enlightenment thinking that underpinned the drafting of the US Declaration of Independence and Constitution could be updated to deliver and sustain a new sovereign nation in Western Australia.

In his masterwork, Secession by Western Australia, he and his collaborating authors have clearly and succinctly summarised the case for secession, the fiscal feasibility of an independent Western Australia, and defined in some detail how delegating power as far down the administrative hierarchy as sensible could deliver a minimal government “of the people, by the people and for the people”.

Successive chapters outline visions for how this new administration would establish its own versions of powers currently held by the Commonwealth — including defence, central banking and a new currency. The book also proposes radical new approaches to education, health and wellness, and laws which better reflect the humanist philosophy underpinning the entire project.

The keystone of the endeavour is a libertarian Constitution that enshrines individual human rights and freedoms, while also describing workable legal mechanisms to guarantee those rights and freedoms, and to protect the minimal system of government from corruption.

The book paints on a broad canvas, and there will be areas where readers have personal experience or specialisation, as well as areas where some detail may be difficult to follow. Nevertheless, the book is organised into a logical flow and written in an enthusiastic style that carries the reader through to the end.

I heartily recommend it to all Western Australians, and to citizens of any country who crave a truly free approach to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.