Talk of WA successionism is not crazy, like the fact that we in Australia share a culture that is British (empire); It is a social memory of the past transfered to the present. Talk of W.A. successionism has it's origin in the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia. It is modified and spun out to fit present day circumstances even where it is inappropriate.
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Rhetorically, what we are discussing is a species of epideictic, of commemorative discourse. In commemorative discourse, the past is not simply constructed or appropriated, as in the other rhetorics of the past, though of course construction and appropriation in fact are occurring. Additionally, in such discourse the past is evoked. Some present need or concern is examined by calling up a past, shaping it into a useful memory that an audience can find relevant to the present. The past thus can guide the present, but the present also is reconfiguring the past; therefore, through evocation of collective memories, past and present live in constant dialogue, even in a hermeneutic circle where neither can be comprehended without the other.
In short it is part of the culture of W. Australia as the British Empire including the Queen is part of Australian culture.
RodneyK
"To destroy a people you must first sever their roots." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
