@PaulGifford "We’ve got this enormously expensive governance layer that was applied to all Australians from 1901 onwards", he [Julian Gillespie] says. "We’ve had a doubling of energy bills since 2019, housing has become increasingly unaffordable."

Noting that both energy and housing are state responsibilities. Particularly in WA which isn't connected to the eastern grid.

The Constitution would mean that all the current interstate arrangements between the states where the Commonwealth acts as a mere secretariat -- road rules, corporation law, censorship, pharmaceutical arrangements, ... -- would all move to being imports, exports and foreign relations, all of which are responsibilities the Constitution assigns to the Commonwealth.

So far from WA having less to do with the Commonwealth, Westralia would *only* be able to deal with the Commonwealth. The very opposite of what they supposedly want.