WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact

The state of Western Australia and former aspiring Republic has today informed the rest of the nation that it was actually just joking about that whole WAXIT thing.

With the mining boom ripping, and the state churning out more cash than it apparently knew what to do with, the West began making noises a few years ago about becoming their own entity and seceding from the rest of the country.

However, with a housing market currently regressing faster than Tony Abbott’s opinions, and an economy chugged to a halt, Mark McGowan has issued a statement today regarding the previous calls for a WAXIT.

“Siiiiiiiiikeeeeeeeeeeee,” said the Premier nervously laughing.

“You guys didn’t think we were actually being serious did you ha ha ha?” he continued, playfully and gently punching an ABC reporter on the shoulder.

“We were just stirring you up when we as a state suggested that we would be better off on our own. To think that because we had a finite amount of resources under the ground inside our borders we would be better off on our own would have been very shortsighted. We’d never actually suggest that.”

It’s believed that with housing prices falling rapidly and the economy desperately in need of a sugar hit strong enough to pick prevent Clive Palmer from taking a mid-afternoon nap, McGowan said he was ‘just keen to clear up the whole thing just in case anyone got the wrong idea.’

“So, ahhhhh, yep, all good, happy days, we’ve never received our fair share of the GST, so when, in the next few years we get to the point where we don’t contribute our fair share, things will be all good and you guys can help us out.”

McGowan then walked off from the press conference, before ducking back to shout ‘Go Eagles’ in the most politician manner ever and walking off again.