Norfolkers “Think
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It’s Theirs!”
Widely-read syndicated Aus tralian columnist Don Whiting ton wrote in his column, “Can berra Comment”, in February that Australian Minister for Territories Paul Hasluck “faced something like a secessionist movement” on Norfolk Island.
He said that deep down Nor folkers thought Norfolk was really theirs and that “main landers, especially those cloaked with authority, are the serpents in the garden of this idyllic island paradise”.
Whitington added that the new Norfolk Island Council “seems to be dominated by a few expatriate mainlanders with strange and rebellious ideas about imagined injustices im posed by Australia.
“It won’t even sit in the fine Council Chamber in which hangs Prince Phillip’s personal standard, presented in 1956. In stead, it sits at a trestle table in the lobby of the local public hall” Whitington added.