Prince Leonard of Hutt River

Hello - had some good friends drop in there just a few weeks back and they reckon they had a great day in the province. Much tourist stuff and they are happy to chat and show folks around we are told.
Cheers - Mobi

Hutt River Provence has been round for about 30 years

He started this fiasco about 35 years ago.

Totally different to Sovereign Hill.

If he's happy and doing well, good luck to him.

Thanks for that info, fellas. That's about what I expected to hear. Glad you could confirm that.

You see, it's not Prince Leonard that I'm worried about.

There's this fella has turned up on a webmaster forum who runs a micronation and believes he can bring his people to a useless part of Australia and set up.

He quotes two other successful micronations: One off the British coast and Hutt River Provence.

Now, if you'd seen the way he interacted on the webmaster forum and read his website, you'd understand that I think that if he was pushed, he could turn into another Martin Bryant. It's not one of those things where people dress up on the weekend and rollplay. This bloke's for real.

This is way off topic for this forum so we should leave it there. I was confident that I'd get information here about Hutt River Provence.

Don't know if I should do anything about this or just let it go.

Thanks,
Laurie.

The idea started many years ago, when the Govt where bringing in wheat quotas (restricting the amount of wheat a farmer could sell). One farmer between Kalbarri and Northampton didn't like the idea and set he could legally secede. That's where it started. The wheat quotas didn't last that long anyway, as the surplus became a shortage on the world stage.

Yes, i think now Hutt River Provence is a sort of touristy thing. I've driven past the farm, but not called in.

Didn't he originally start this because of dissatisfaction with wool tax or something like that ...damn I don'tknow any more - whers my 6th glass of win e ? !

It appears that the Hut River Province is independent of Australia. The local tourist info we saw a few months ago acknowledged the fact. It also went on to say that the residents were not entitled to things like Medicare and other things we take for granted. The legislation that allowed the succession is no longer usable since negating legislation has been brought into force.

For a little on the history of the succession read this link

There is also a Wikipedia article on them

PeterD

I think ther's something about WA never being under the crown. It was never claimed by Cook. Not sure of the details but i think Prince Lenard said something about this.

We visited there last year. Fascinating.

If you read the stuff there, it is perfectly legal. He has seceeded from the Commonwealth. There is (supposedly) supporting documentation there on (supposedly) Government letterhead supporting this view.

One of the things Prince Leonard did was to declare war on Australia (with a small tank), and because nobody came to fight, he was able to declare his patch separate from Australia.

It is a terrific place to visit, and very interesting. It did start, as mentioned earlier, due to imposing wheat quotas, but he also seems to have scored some smart legal minds to steer him through the whole thing.

Worth a visit if you are in the area.

Jack

I still have my ' visa' for entering Hutt River Province in 1979.
Had a cuppa and a yarn with the Prince.

This is the link to the homepage.

Hutt River Province