Residents of Point Cook, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria located 25 km south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, are petitioning the country’s government for a right to hold a referendum granting Sovereign Nation status to their area.
The petition outlines the major failures of the politicians “from all walks of life and all tiers of Government”, who “have let them down, and continue to do so”.
They want to be an independent nation with its own flag and its own…monarchy.
Their key complaints include a lack of employment (“70% of Point Cook's work force travels across the city to get to work”), the poor condition of their roads and public transportation:
“Developers are looking at adding thousands more houses to a suburb already feeling the pinch. Roads are over capacity, jobs far away, internet unconnected in many places, kids going to schools miles away.”
Group of #PointCook residents petitioning to break away from Australia & become own country http://t.co/GA66mdQSzH pic.twitter.com/03K4H0OzpE
— TEN News Queensland (@tennewsqld) 28 апреля 2015
The issues which are being raised today were raised in the Australian Government by the former Prime Minister, fifteen years ago.
The petition therefore questions why the residents should allow the authorities to continue governing them, when they have “failed us (them) so significantly?”
It therefore suggests “running a referendum to grant Sovereign Nation Status to Point Cook as a constitutional monarchy.”
So far, it has attracted more than 370 supporters, or less than one percent of the local population.
