June, 1927. THE ARGO 1 WESTERN AUSTRALIA and THE COMMONWEALTH. The following interesting article is taken from th e March issue of "The Round Table" An arid Lll1Pro luctive area clivid·es the we .. t from the east of Austrafia as completly as the sea divides the latter from New Zealand. Even Kalgoorlie is over a thousan 1 mil es from Port 'Augusta, in Sohlth u tralia. Fremantle is r,886 miles from Melbourne by sea. vVell ing­ ton in New Zealand is only 1,200 miles from Sydney Moreover there are onl y 370,000 \iVestern Australian as Selected and Matured against 5,700,00 in the eastern States. The point needing .by the Same Family explanation is not that the west i re tive, but that . he of Experta for Five ever consented to enter into so unequal a yoke. The explan­ Generations. ation may be found in (i) the gold rush which submerged. at a critical phase of the federal movement, an old colonial community suspicious rather than united in feeli ng with the ·eastern coloni sts, a community moulded by nature and isolation into pastoral and agricultural fo rms; and (ii) the re-emergence, amongst "tothersi lers" and "gropers" alike, in the rein forced western population, of the in eluct­ able effects of isolation . Founders of the first free colony, the V-l estern . ust­ ralians were cl iviclecl by necessity to ask in 1848 fo r a 0/Jia/ilob/e a/ a lithe ! eadmq lto!ei:J & J1/,'oe ,5oloMj supply of convict labour for public works. Thi antagon­ i. eel their eastern nei:,,;hbou r , just emerging from the mi re of transportation. Antagonism remain ed even after the end, in 1868, of the convict episode. Isolated and some­ what hardbitten through poverty, the \i\Testern Au tralians held aloof until 1890 under Crown government. They were clubbed ''sand gropers" by the wealthier East. Then responsible o·overnment and the discovery of gold wrought a dramatic change. \ iVith a rush came thousands of push­ ful re tJ.ess " tothersicler ," eager to kim the cream of the gold-fields' trade, and to use self government as a means of favouring every new development. A the population advanced from 4<;), 782 in 1891 to 184,124 in rgor, the "tothersiders " far outnumbered the "groper ," and t hreatened to take charo·e of the colony. T he gold-fields AERIAL MAIL CONTR ,\CTORS 35 A MP BUI L OlNGS around Kalgoorli e clamoured fo r a railway-port at Esper­ PERTH . \\'. A. ance to make them le s dependant on the Swan River colon­ ists, and to lessen the distance by sea from their eastern homes. The new community seemed likely to bridge over the gap of arid, uninhabited land that hac\ hitherto separated the two Australias, but it imported rather than diminished inter-colonial antagonism. The ·' tothersiders" natura ll y evinced a keen interest 111 the movement to place the map of Australia and all that lay therein under one Government. Long talked of in the MAP SHOWIN G AIR PORTS eastern colonies, to the old \Ale tern Au tralians thi ON THE LONGEST PASSENGER AIRWAY IN ThiE WORLD fede ral movement had been hitherto a matter of indiffer­ ence. T heir delegate to the 1881 and l 883 conferences bad REGU LAR WEEK LY S&RVICE B[lW[[N PERTH ANO NQR. WEST been instructed to refain from voting on any resolution. PORTS At the Australa ion Federal Convention of 1890, ir Jam s PASSENGERS FREIGHT Lee teere had made it plain that \iV estern Australia would MAILS not sacri fice her existing tariff, the· new Government' mam ource of revenue. 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