Posted 11/10/2013 05:50 am
It isn't actually a note from Hutt River. They look like this.
This is a piece of political "funny money". Making such satirical notes is a long-running tradition here in Australia. The notes are designed to look enough like genuine Australian notes of the time (in this case, a $2 note) to make people stop and look. Once you stop and look, it's mission accomplished for the political lobby group in question. This particular one was issued by a trade union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union. The two people depicted on the front are West Australian conservative party leader Charles Court and Western Australian mining magnate Lang Hancock.
Because of the issues named on it, I believe this note can fairly confidently be dated to the 1974 state election.
The references to Hutt River Province (a secessionist micronation in Western Australia) refers to Hancock's attempt at forming a pro-secession political party in Western Australia, calling for Western Australia to secede from the Australian commonwealth. Nobody really took him seriously (hence the reference to being a "jester") and his party floundered at the election.
This is a piece of political "funny money". Making such satirical notes is a long-running tradition here in Australia. The notes are designed to look enough like genuine Australian notes of the time (in this case, a $2 note) to make people stop and look. Once you stop and look, it's mission accomplished for the political lobby group in question. This particular one was issued by a trade union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union. The two people depicted on the front are West Australian conservative party leader Charles Court and Western Australian mining magnate Lang Hancock.
Because of the issues named on it, I believe this note can fairly confidently be dated to the 1974 state election.
The references to Hutt River Province (a secessionist micronation in Western Australia) refers to Hancock's attempt at forming a pro-secession political party in Western Australia, calling for Western Australia to secede from the Australian commonwealth. Nobody really took him seriously (hence the reference to being a "jester") and his party floundered at the election.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
