New State Movement
New England has been the home of Australia's most persistent attempt to form a new state within the Australian commonwealth. Many New England people have long resented being governed from Sydney. In the 1930s and again in the 1960s, the New England New State Movement campaigned for New England to be separated from New South Wales. The movement was closely allied with the Country Party, which could have expected to form the government of such a new state.
On 29 April 1967 a referendum in the region on the creation of a new state in northern NSW returned a 'no' vote of 54%.
Chapter VI of the Constitution of Australia allows new states to be formed, but only with the consent of the Parliament of the state in question. It has never been likely that the New South Wales Parliament would consent to the separation of New England.
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