By Professor Ian Brighthope
Reclaiming Our Destiny: A Call to Transform Australia’s Governance
Imagine a nation reborn, where the boundless energy of its people surges unchecked by the chains of distant, indifferent overlords—a land where prosperity isn’t pilfered but poured back into the veins of its communities, fueling innovation, health, and unyielding freedom. This is the Australia I fight for, and it’s why I demand a seismic overhaul of our governance. For far too long, we’ve suffered under a federal system that treats states like Western Australia as mere cash cows, milking our resources while starving our potential. This isn’t just inefficiency; it’s a betrayal of our pioneering spirit. The time for timid pleas is over— we must decentralise power, empower states, and if necessary, pursue sovereignty to unleash our true destiny. Let me arm you with irrefutable evidence and galvanising examples that expose the rot and ignite the path to a peaceful revolution.
Economically, the federal yoke is a parasite draining WA’s lifeblood. We generate a staggering 45% of Australia’s exports, worth $234 billion annually, powering the nation with iron ore, LNG, and gold that fill eastern coffers. Yet, in return, we’re shortchanged billions through the GST carve-up—in 2023, WA forked over $20 billion more than it received, subsidizing Sydney’s trams and Melbourne’s bailouts while our outback roads crumble and regional jobs evaporate. Our resources sector alone injected a record $150 billion into the national economy in 2023-24, with $90 billion staying local, funding one in three state jobs and a third of government revenue. But federal meddling—imposing tariffs and regulations—echoes the grievances that sparked the 1933 secession referendum, where two-thirds of Western Australians voted to break free from this exploitation.
Even today, polls show 28-36% of us yearning for independence, a fire stoked by the “tyranny of distance” from Canberra. Why settle for scraps when secession could mirror Norway’s triumph? After parting from Sweden in 1905, Norway harnessed its oil wealth into a $1.5 trillion sovereign fund, skyrocketing GDP per capita and securing generational prosperity—exactly what WA could achieve with our $260 billion GSP, 17.5% of national GDP, untethered from federal theft. Lower taxes, booming green hydrogen, and tech hubs would catapult us to rival Singapore, which seceded from Malaysia in 1965 and transformed into an economic titan through bold autonomy.
In health, federal arrogance has been deadly. The COVID-19 debacle exposed Canberra’s one-size-fits-all tyranny, enforcing lockdowns and mandates that ignored WA’s unique advantages—low density and resilient communities—leading to a 20% spike in suicides and excess deaths from neglected treatments. While WA led the world in low cases and economic strength, federal overreach crushed small businesses and mental health, with national GDP plunging 7% in mid-2020. I’ve long advocated for nutritional powerhouses like vitamin D to bolster immunity, yet bureaucratic mandates sidelined these, costing lives. Imagine if we’d followed Switzerland’s model, where cantons wield health sovereignty under minimal federal interference, yielding lower mortality and swifter recovery. Decentralising health governance would prioritise preventive care, local nutrition initiatives, and rapid responses, saving thousands and fostering a healthier, freer WA—free from the faceless dictates that turned our state into a lockdown laboratory.
Politically, we’re voiceless in a system rigged for the east. With just 16 seats in a 151-member House, WA’s cries—on water scarcity in the Pilbara or indigenous rights in the Kimberley—drown in a sea of Sydney-centric priorities. Federal overrides on environmental laws shove unwanted projects down our throats, eroding trust and fueling the “Cinderella state” resentment that’s simmered since federation. The 2022 election surge for independence candidates screams our frustration, yet we’re ignored. History proves reform works: Quebec’s 1995 near-secession forced Canada to devolve powers, sparking growth; Scotland’s push yielded tax and welfare autonomy. We must amend Section 51 to curb federal incursions or invoke Section 123 for new states—turning division into dynamic democracy that honours regional realities.
Environmentally and socially, federal neglect is a scourge. Carbon taxes hammer our mining while subsidising eastern coal, ignoring WA’s renewable powerhouse potential. Indigenous communities, despite our wealth, suffer unmet “closing the gap” targets. Local governance could weave traditional knowledge into conservation, like New Zealand’s Māori co-governance, delivering superior outcomes.
My position is clear: Australia’s governance must evolve from a centralised relic of colonialism into a dynamic confederation of empowered states. This change isn’t about anger; it’s about aspiration—for economic justice, health freedom, political relevance, and environmental stewardship. We’ve seen the costs of inaction in lost opportunities and human suffering.
This is righteous resolve. Our governance must morph from colonial relic to empowered confederation, prioritising state sovereignty for justice, vitality, and stewardship. The costs of stasis? Stagnation, suffering, lost futures. But the rewards of reform? A thriving, united-yet-autonomous nation. Demand change, support sovereignty. Our legacy demands it; our children deserve it. And Western Australia is just the first Australian State to become a New Nation.
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We hear Jacinta Allen Premier of Danistan was about to present evidence about the Unions 15 billion kickbacks etc and the entire storage burned down the day before. Well what else would you expect from the ALP.
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“Brighthope”? My Fat Acre! NO HOPE AT ALL!
The ‘elephant in the room’ is “Almighty God”, Who is front and centre, and Foundation, of all that pertains to The Commonwealth of Australia.
He has been snubbed by the blasphemous author and commentators alike. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22).
They all echo Marx, one of the greatest failure in history (along with Darwin).
They all follow the Jesuit maxims, “The end justifies the means”, and, “For the greater good,” oblivious to Almighty God and His immutable Law, by which He (Jesus Christ) shall judge them.
They all kowtow to the Roman Antichrist, not knowing that God has given them over to him, to drain them off as sewage into God’s own sewer pit, which He calls, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH,” “the woman”, “arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication”, “the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus” (Revelation 17:4-6).
They all speak out of “reprobate minds,” which God gave them (Romans 1:28) because “they did not like to retain God in their knowledge.”
Psalm 9:17, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
Acts 17:30, “God … commandeth all men every where to repent. Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.”
(Ref: The Authorised / King James Bible – the Founding document and Eternal Rule of The Commonwealth of Australia)
Sincerely in the service of Christ, Crown, & Constitution,
Trevor W Sullivan, Nanango Christian Faith Centre.
03/03/2026
In Canberra the red chorus is saying they are getting more people onto bulk billing than ever in history.
This is because they cancelled bulk billing a couple of years ago. Then they say “the figures don’t lie”.
This is a chorus line of suck holes, as described by Latham, no wonder he couldn’t take the pressure.
This place ( the APH ) costs a fortune and most of the occupants are just part of a rabble.
Murder, murder, murder
Rape, rape, rape
Death, death, death
Amway, Amway, Amway
Blood clots galore as Gates culls useless eaters
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2YiNVgot-A ]
Fantastic Piece I am sharing far and wide. Thanks Professor!!
The IT staff should allow the editor to “reply” to comments, otherwise comments such as “???” are a mystery
Where do WA UnaParty politicians sit in the scheme of things?
Will replacing about 100 pro-democide, anti-humane morons change anything?
Look at the broader environment – police, media, judiciary.
Remember what happened to Brendon O’Connel (2011) after his exposure of Israel and the Talpiot program. Appears the Freemason element of the WA Police joined with the Zionist Fanclub to shut Brendon down. Seems the goal was to destroy freedom of speech. MSM went in a hysterical meltdown, as usual, and jumped on the hate-speech bandwagon, like they always do. The Judiciary agreed and sent Brendon to jail for 3 years. How could they not? Exposing their role in the ongoing deception of the Admiralty Courts system and Birth Certificate racket would sink their chances of any final power grab.
Talk of secession and new politicians in Parliament while allowing that cesspit to be surrounded by a devious, multi-faceted death cult is naive.
The weakest link is the lying media.
Agree with most of what Ian proposed but WA would first have to rid themselves of premier C(r)ook and as an ex kiwi would not advise any type of co governance in Australia. It is a debacle in NZ and has made the white people there virtually second class citizens. Victoria is well on the way to to being in exactly the same situation with their Treaty Act.
Wheres that? Ed
Section 128 allows for new states and I think Hutt River Province proved secession is possible.The blackfellas are working hard on secession now. Ed
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May God be with you in this mission professor bright hope. Now if each and every state did this then we can I presume arrest and charge the cabinet evil politicians since they don’t have any power over any part of Australia. We pray for this to succeed. God bless and God save us from this satanic government
Rennick is saying the IMF has told Canberra to bail out Danistan
I have said for many years that WA and QLD should secede from the rest of the country we are treated as 3 class states despite producing the majority of exports and local supplies ,So YES if we are to improve our quality of ife we MUST step out of the treadmill.
Those who missed James Giordano’s lecture at West Point I think called “The Mind is the Battleground of the Future” should at least take note of the title. The weapon up to now has been the M$M and we have horrible e-Karen and pedo Gates’ ms_CoPilot365 working to shut down free speech and pick off a few dissenters with their label “terrorist”, they will come up with more terms over time and shut down thought, as it is already shut down in the majority of the sheeples. The sheeples have some knowledge then that is their limit they’ve had enough and they revert to being sheeples. The masters of statecraft use this tendency for manipulation purposes and nowadays with added “safety” and “keeping us safe” they are lowering the information tolerance even further. “Safety” is more than just a DuPont product line, it is an invitation to stoopidity. Commenter Sir Rope says the battle for the mind is already over and I agree. How can you beat an enemy that is 3 steps ahead of sheeple thinking at all times, with a bunch of sheep. All they are capable of is bleating and running away until they strike a fence. I put the odds 10:1 at best. Just look what happened in the last few decades, wages virtually stalled while CEO wages went from 3x worker to 100x worker. Mom and pop businesses shut down, council regulated against shophouses, Rockerfellas foundations installed feminism to break up families and cancel population growth, it’s happening too slowly for the sheeple to even comprehend. All they can do is bleat. When did bleating ever save a sheep.
“GREAT IDEA, TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR STATE AND GET RID OF THE CENTRAL LIBLABS, ALL THEY SUCCEDED IN DOING IS DESTROY ECONOMIES ALL OVER AUS.” — acv19ff39b09e86
Outlawing political parties and groups that now infest and advise local administrative corporations and state governments would be a necessary first step, along with outlawing lobbyists and resilience that has hitched a ride into the country on the back of global-agenda’s agents.
On occasion, I read through a post that sparks a feint hope for the future. It is a reminder that in amongst the endless futile comments that offer no direction on what action is needed to address the issue in question, there are some contributors who have thought through what they write before it is posted.
In contrast, I read a comment that promote pointless sentiments that can never be put into practice. Whilst I can sympathise to some degree with the reasons for the basic sentiment, it needs to be made clear that in no way does the Sir Rope type of solution provide constructive answers, let alone have the potential to suggest anything that might resolve the seriousness of what is happening to Australia.
Cairnsnews, Australia desperately thirsts for the Professor Brighthope type of articles, and to see the end of the Sir Rope irritations.
The Great Australian Carve Up is progressing smoothly and according to design. Help the “divide and conquer” suckers by giving them a donation. Start with the richest parts of Australia. It should speed things up a bit.
There’s nothing like a bit of stupidity to disrupt a lot of indolence.
I am a Queenslander and agree to susceed from the Commonwealth of Australia since it has been taken over by the Freemasons Coup D eTat before the 1920s and now is under Gough Whitlam’s corporate Australian Government registered in the now bankrupted (by President Trump) District of Columbia, Washington DC/US (not USA), NWO/WEF/Davos, ALL THIS DONE WITHOUT REFERENDUMS OR A LEGITIMATE LAWFULLY INSTALLED MONARCH.
SOOOO MUUUUCH CORRUPTION BY GOVERNMENT MUST BE STOPPED.
Queensland as a country, not a state, would enable us to thrive without Canberra living off our wealth.
Lmao lmao at these goyim who talk about secession. The constitution does not provide a legal mechanism for a state or territory to secede, as the preamble describes the federation as an “indissoluble” (unbreakable) union. The federal government receives significant revenue by milking WA’s mining exports with “taxes” and “fees”.
Politicians in Canberra will never stop milking their cows in WA. Anything that threatens the revenues from WA will be put own.
The only way therefore for WA to secede is to vote with rope. But they can’t do that as they were disarmed in 3 false flag attacks, and again by their own state gov just last year.
WA = bovine.
All subjects need to do is stop participating in fraudulent elections for The Australian Government not and return to an Imperial Realm of which the nation once was.
The Commonwealth of Australia Act which was
Assented to 9th July 1900
Proclaimed 17th September 1900
Gazetted 1st January 1901.
The Royal Proclamation of 17th September 1900, in which
the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria,
after being satisfied that the people of Her six Colonies agreed,
declared that:-
“on and after the First day of January
One thousand nine hundred and one,
the people of
New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland,
Tasmania, and Western Australia,
shall be united under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia”.
The Letters Patent of 29th October 1900, which were published in the
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. 1 of 1st January 1901 [1901GN01],
were granted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria,
under Royal Sign Manual and Signet,
and were passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom,
constituting the Office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief
of the Commonwealth of Australia, and made patent that those Letters Patent
may not be revoked, altered, or amended by anyone else other than
the holder of the Crown of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty Queen Victoria
and Her heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
Note forward by Maryanne Demasi – REMOVED by crooked ABC-TV some years ago
REMOVED for supplying honest health information to the public which the CROOKED ABC-TV did not want public.
https://michaelwest.com.au/author/maryannedemasi/
Speaking of select information, they say Bill Clinton is the first ex-president to face congress since alleged pedo Gerald Ford.
Ford was asked about Watergate etc and … ( note item 4 )
3. Intelligence Community and CIA Connections
Ford’s ties to the CIA and his involvement in MK-ULTRA and domestic surveillance programs came under scrutiny in 1983, as Congress investigated Cold War-era abuses.
MK-ULTRA and Human Experimentation: Ford, as a Congressman, had oversight of CIA budgets but failed to curb illegal programs like MK-ULTRA, which conducted mind-control experiments on unwitting citizens [B-4][A-8].
Church Committee Fallout: The 1975 Church Committee exposed CIA assassinations and domestic spying, but Ford’s administration resisted reforms. By 1983, lawmakers demanded answers on Ford’s knowledge of these operations [B-6][A-1].
FBI COINTELPRO Involvement: Ford’s tenure coincided with FBI efforts to disrupt civil rights groups, yet he later weakened the Levi Guidelines (1976), which had restricted domestic surveillance [B-6][A-6].
4. The Swine Flu Scandal and Public Health Failures
Ford’s 1976 swine flu vaccination program, which led to hundreds of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome and dozens of deaths, resurfaced in 1983 as Congress probed government malfeasance in public health crises [B-9][A-5].
Pharmaceutical Liability: Ford granted blanket legal immunity to vaccine manufacturers, shielding them from lawsuits despite known risks—a move critics likened to his Nixon pardon [B-9][A-8].
False Pandemic Claims: Evidence showed the CDC and Ford’s administration exaggerated the swine flu threat, with no actual pandemic occurring. Congress questioned whether the program was a corporate bailout for Big Pharma [A-5][S-2].
5. Post-Presidency Influence and Shadow Governance
By 1983, Ford was suspected of undermining the Carter and Reagan administrations through backchannel diplomacy, particularly in Latin America, where U.S. military interventions escalated [A-6][S-3].
Venezuela and Drug War Militarization: Ford’s advocacy for expanded Pentagon operations in Latin America, including the use of the USS Gerald Ford carrier group, raised concerns about unauthorized regime-change efforts [A-12][S-1].
Iran-Contra Prelude: Ford’s associates, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, were later implicated in Iran-Contra, leading Congress to examine whether Ford had laid the groundwork for illegal arms deals [B-7][A-6].
This idea of GST being carved up in Canberra is rotten, and while it is misdirected to non-viable places, everyone is borrowing money as well, to pay for their pork barrelling. It would be better if states wanting extra funding had to borrow the GST from the more viable states, in preference to borrowing from overseas banksters. They might think twice about wasting the money if it wasn’t a HANDOUT.
GREAT IDEA, TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR STATE AND GET RID OF THE CENTRAL LIBLABS, ALL THEY SUCCEDED IN DOING IS DESTROY ECONOMIES ALL OVER AUS.
Hi, several important points that I agree with. But one ‘Australia’s governance must evolve from a centralised relic of colonialism into a dynamic confederation of empowered states’, I suggest there is a much better, variation. Remove all states and territories and devolve their powers to councils that are corporations owned by locals. This and much more is proposed on my website http://www.better-management.org
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