New Book on Hutt River Principality

[JasonMckerra]

An Australian Monarch, by William Pitt is a new book on the famous Australian micronation, the Hutt River Principality.

The story of a remarkable episode in the history of Australia. Leonard Casley and his family who owned and operated a wheat farm in Western Australia, were faced with financial ruin under the centrally controlled wheat marketing rules. He studied the rules, he met the administrators of the rules, and found the only survival option, within the rules, was to secede from Australia. He did this, and the resulting adventure is a mixture of high stress and hilarity; of success against all odds; of great personal courage and family support. The Australian spirit of bucking an oppressive book of rules could not be better described than in the story of the Hutt River Province.

The book is due to be launched by Leonard Casey at the State Library of New South Wales on the 4th of February, 2010.

I hope to make the trip on behalf of the Republic of Lavalon.

[JasonMckerra]

Details from the publisher here.

http://www.copyright.net.au/details.php?id=123

[Brandon]

HRP is probably the micronation in the sense of having actual land I like the most, but I still have reservations and some confusion about it.  The thing that irritates me the most, probably, is their 1 million web sites, which I think is based on the idea of a different site for every "consulate" they have to other countries.

[JasonMckerra]

"Real" nations often engage in the practice of having a website for each ambassadorial mission, the HRP has always aspired to the trappings of a "real" nation.

Unfortunately their official website (the one maintained by Prince Leonard and family) is this Web 0.1 job.

[Brandon]

Real nations have web sites for everything, and I could never find their official web site, and all of them tend to have random suckitude which gets on my nerves, eg they should be able to do better than Lavalon with more time and money but what you put together is 100 times better.

[JasonMckerra]

Yeah, the Australian govt has a "central" website, it still needs a lot of work IMO.

http://www.australia.gov.au/

[Brandon]

I was referring to HRP in that post, I reread it and realized it was vague.  Our national website is technically http://www.whitehouse.gov/ and that usually changes completely with every new presidency.  Funny, this time it didn't really change that much.

[JasonMckerra]

The book launch is tonight, and unfortunately I wont be able to attend. George Cruickshank of the Empire of Atlantium is attending though, hopefully we'll be able to hear of anything interesting that comes out of the event.