A suburb on Melbourne's southwestern outskirts is so fed up with inadequate public services and infrastructure it wants to be declared an independent nation.

Residents in Point Cook, the birthplace of the Royal Australian Air Force, have started a petition calling for the 9.3 sq km area to secede from Australia.

The team behind the petition say they want to draw attention to the failings of politicians in their suburb, which has a population of just under 44,000.

“I’ll be the first to say: seceding from Australia is crazy, it’s a madcap idea,” Point Cook man Tony Hooper told Karl Stefanovic on TODAY.

“[But] the situation we’re in, we’re just not getting a fair go.”

He pointed to the fact the rapidly growing suburb had just half the state average number of police officers and poor road infrastructure as key factors behind the push.

Mr Hooper said there was some legal precedent for the secession claims, with the monarchy to be removed should independence ever be granted.

“The politicians of the area are so out of touch with the people,” Mr Hooper said.

“We have to ask: why do we actually tolerate that form of government?”

Mr Hooper said work to create the movement’s flag was “literally a five-minute exercise”.

A flag design put forward by residents of Point Cook to represent their secession plans. (Supplied) (Supplied)