An Australian Monarch (book)

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An Australian Monarch (ISBN 978 1 876344672) is a book about the Principality of Hutt River, its founder, Leonard Casley, and the wider separatist, secessionist and micronation phenomena in Australia. It was written by William Pitt, and published by CopyRight Publishing, Brisbane, in 2010.

In addition to Casley's micronation - the historical trajectory of which constitutes approximately half the book's content, Pitt's narrative explores the individual history, general background and more noteworthy aspects and activities of the Snake Hill Principality, the Independent State of Rainbow Creek and the Empire of Atlantium, which are presented as exemplars of the differing types of micronational entity to which particular circumstances and attitudes can give rise. The Province of Bumbunga, the Principality of Ponderosa and the Principality of United Oceania are also briefly described.

The book also explores historic popular regional separatism and secessionism attempts in Australia, including the attempted secession of the state of Western Australia from the Commonwealth in the 1930s, and that of the New England region from the state of New South Wales in the 1920s and 30s.

An Australian Monarch was officially launched by Leonard Casley at the State Library of New South Wales on 4 February 2010. Representatives of Atlantium and Snake Hill were also in attendance, and the gathering is thought to have constituted the largest-ever face-to-face encounter between Australian micronational leaders, up to that time.

External links

• An Australian Monarch at the publisher's website.

See also

• Birth of a Principality - a history of Hutt River Principality published in the 1970s.
• The Man - a biography of Prince Leonard published in the 1970s.