From: Louise O'Brien []
Sent: 7 October 2003 18:42
To: >
Subject: The housing solution

Dear Sir/Madam,

Australia needs to be divided into more states.

Australians love living in a capital cities, and we are the most urbanized
nation in the world. But Australia has not been divided into more states
since the nation was formed in 1901, (except Canberra) when we only had a
population of 4 million.

Australia is nearly the same size as America and it has 50 states.

Below is a region that is part of Western Australia.  I believe this region
needs to be separate from Western Australia and should become a new state. A
new capital city could be located on its coastline, which could be half way
between Perth and Adelaide.

http://www.gedc.wa.gov.au/fr-region.html

Alternatively, the map below shows Western Australia has eleven regions that
could be made into 5 states.

Kimberly
Pilbara
Goldfields and South East
Outback Coast and Mid West
Heartlands, Peel, Great Southern, South West and Heartlands

http://www.countrywide.com.au/suburbs/wamaplarge.html

If  Western Australia was divided into 5 new states, the whole area could
keep the regional name of Western Australia.

Western Australia only has 1.5 million people yet covers one third of
Australia.

Regards

Louise O'Brien
NSW