Western Australia
About Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi), and is also the second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth.
On the show — 35 mentions total
In 1933 Western Australia voted to leave Australia. Like a Brexit, they just said, we don't want to be a part of Australia anymore. They did the vote, it was successful, and then they just... Australia said, nah, we're not letting you do it.
from 163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 at 00:36:35 · read transcript
Other times Western Australia came up
Calgurly. This in Western Australia, and they had a similar sort of gold rush, but what they didn't notice was there's a different type of gold, which is it just wasn't recognized as gold properly at the time because it wasn't shiny and it wasn't gold. Anyway, the point is that they thought it was a bit of a waste rock, so they were paving the streets with it.
No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen
What I was trying to do is get the juice from the power cable because it thinks that's a route. Yeah. Actually, it's just... It's not just trying to contact its friends on the phone on the other side of Australia. Maybe it would be trying to contact aliens because there was one time there was a space tracking station in Western Australia, which was connected by underground cables and it got into those as well. Wow. Really? Yeah.
No Such Thing As 'Is It Mushroom?', 2024-05-23 · listen
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