A political faction in the state of Western Australia is stirring a debate about seceding from the country’s federation of states over a long-running grievance about tax revenues.

After Britain voted to leave the European Union in a move known as Brexit, and some Californians agitated to leave the United States after President Trump’s election, has “threatening to leave” become the new political solution to thorny problems?

A faction of the Western Australian Liberals, the right-leaning party led by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, is holding a conference this weekend. On the agenda is a motion to set up a committee to investigate “WAxit,” the somewhat awkward moniker for the proposal to secede from Australia. The committee would report back in 2018.

The idea might sound far-fetched, but it’s not the first time Western Australia has considered it.

In 1933, 68 percent of the state — which had only signed on to the Australian federation reluctantly in the first place — voted to secede. The British House of Commons had final say on the matter, but refused even to consider it.