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  Wikinfo | Hutt River Province
In the early 1980s Hutt River Province declared itself to be a Kingdom, but soon afterwards reverted to its original status of Principality.
Hutt River Province is situated 595 km north of Perth, and is about 75 square km in size.
Considered a joke by many and by others as a fine example of thumbing one's nose at the authorities, the continued existence of the Hutt River Province is at the least an interesting footnote in any chapter on the history of Australia's domestic policies, as well as in international legal considerations of what constitutes statehood.
www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Hutt_River_Province   (922 words)

  
  Hutt River Province Principality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hutt River Province Principality is Australia's oldest micronation.
In the early 1980s Hutt River Province declared itself to be a kingdom, but soon afterwards reverted to its original status of a principality.
Hutt River Province is situated 595 km north of Perth, and is about 75 square km in size.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hutt_River_Province   (1272 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Hutt River Province
At the time of his sudden death in 1995 he and his associates were allegedly seeking to formally overthrow Prince Leonard as "sovereign", install Gale in his place, and establish Hutt River Province as an independent state on an island in the Pacific Ocean.
The Province's activities since 1995 have been considerably more low-key, although its 30th anniversary, on April 21, 2000, was attended by supporters and media from around the world.
Considered a joke by many and by others as a fine example of thumbing one's nose at the authorities, the continued existence of the Hutt River Province is at the least an interesting footnote in any chapter on the history of Australia's domestic policies, as well as in international legal considerations of what constitutes statehood.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/hu/hutt_river_province.html   (679 words)

  
 2nd Passport
The passports of Hutt River Province are widely accepted around the world by at least 100 countries that apply their own visa requirements as in the general categories.
Hutt River Province has very wide diplomatic representation around the world with Ambassadors, High Commissioners, Trade Attaché etc. Most of the people serving in these roles do so in an honorary capacity.
Hutt River Province has acceded to the Hague Convention on Legalization and has a representative authorized to Apostle documents.
www.passport.hrp.bz   (388 words)

  
 Micronations
The citizens of Hutt River responded by acclaiming Casley as Prince Leonard I; under Commonwealth law, a monarch could not be charged with treason.
Hutt River Province Principality is situated 595 km north of Perth, Western Australia and is about 75 square km in size, consisting of some 18,500 acres of land.
Hutt River is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from Australia on 21 Apr 1970 and is of comparable size to Hong Kong (not the New Territories).
www.worldstatesmen.org /Selfprocl.html   (1673 words)

  
 Hutt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Zealand's Hutt River, which flows through the Hutt Valley, and the cities of Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt situated on its banks.
Hutt River, known for the Hutt River Province, a self-proclaimed independent state within the borders of Western Australia
John Hutt Governor of Western Australia from 1839 to 1846
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hutt   (140 words)

  
 The official page of the Legislation Committee of the Hutt River Province Principality
Foreign investment in the Hutt River Province Principality is subject to prior authorization and based on aggreement between the foreign investor and the Government in each specific case.
Foreign investors will have the right to make transfers out the territory of the Hutt River Province Principality to a freely convertible currency calculated at the prevailing market rate on the date of the transfer, with respect to spot transactions in the currency to be transferred.
The Hutt River Province Principality may limit the right of transfer through the equal and nondiscriminatory manner of the laws of general application, including laws regarding the payment of taxes and the satisfaction of claims and court decisions.
home.online.no /~stoelsvi/legcom/page/investments.txt   (1129 words)

  
 Hutt River Independent
The administrator of Hutt River Province sat behind a traymobile and talked about the future of Western Australia's breakaway State.
The biggest battle the province has had to face is about to be fought with the Department of Labor and National Service.
The summons was served in Wayne at Hutt River Province.
www.angelfire.com /wa3/hri/inthenews.html   (746 words)

  
 Hutt River Province Government
Principality of Hutt River Principality is situated 595 km north of Perth, Western Australia and is about 75 square km in size, consisting of some 18,500 acres of land.
Hutt River is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from Australia on the Twenty First Day of April 1970 and is of comparable size to Hong Kong (not the New Territories).
Hutt River is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from Australia on the Twenty...
www.huttriverprovince.biz   (374 words)

  
 HRP Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hutt River Province (HRP) Principality is situated within the boundaries of Western Australia and is about 75 square km in size, consisting of some 18,500 acres of mainly flat or gently undulating land.
HRP Principality is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from Australia on the Twenty First Day of April 1970 and is of comparable size to Hong Kong.
While the existence of HRP as a sovereign state was initially contested, for many years now it has been accepted and left in peace.
www.gtgroup.com.vu /HRP_International_Company_Information_IBC.htm   (349 words)

  
 Hutt River Province Principality - MicroWiki - a Wikia wiki
The Province was founded on 21 April, 1970 by farmer Leonard George Casley (who now styles himself as Prince Leonard), when he and his associates proclaimed their secession from the state of Western Australia.
At the time of his sudden death in 1995 he and his associates were allegedly seeking to formally overthrow Prince Leonard as "sovereign", install Gale in his place, and establish the Hutt River Province Principality as an independent state on an island in the Pacific Ocean.
The story of the Hutt River Province Principality's purported secession is well known in Australia, and Prince Leonard is generally admired as a well-intentioned eccentric who embodies a much-admired anti-establishment streak that is thought by many to form an intrinsic part of the Australian national character.
micronations.wikia.com /wiki/Hutt_River_Province_Principality   (1290 words)

  
 hutt river province
The Principality of Hutt River is situated 595 km north of Perth, Western Australia and is about 75 square km in size, consisting of some 18,500 acres of land.
The Australian Governments response to all this is typically that HRP is a private farm and that the Prince is nothing but a businessman.
At times HRP did not pay taxes, and certainly Department of Territories internal government documents posted on the HRP website indicate that the province is not bound to pay taxation.
www.nuttyfudgekins.com /hutt-river-province   (942 words)

  
 Prince Leonard:
The property was renamed the Hutt River Province and Leonard and Shirley became Prince and Princess.
Hutt River has survived as a busy tourist destination and the Casley's manage to keep farming as well.
Because of crippling grain quotas, the Hutt River property, 600km north of Perth, seceded from Australia.
www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_people/Transcripts/s833528.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Hutt - TheBestLinks.com - Star Wars, Lower Hutt, Hutt River Province, Upper Hutt, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hutt, Star Wars, Lower Hutt, Hutt River Province, Upper Hutt, Hutt River, New...
New Zealand's Hutt River, and the cities of Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt (situated on its banks).
Australia's Hutt River, known for the Hutt River Province, a self-proclaimed independent state.
www.thebestlinks.com /Hutt.html   (149 words)

  
 UnBooks:Hutt River Anthology - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
The Hutt River Anthology is a collection of poems written by Edgar Lee Majors, based around the lives and deaths of the inhabitants of the Hutt River Province, an Alderaanian splinter-state founded on the principals of gluttony and skimpy metal bikinis.
The Province is ran by Jabba Desilijic Tiure of the notorious Hutt crime and pizza empire.
Jabba the Hutt, famed intergalactic crime lord, is the subject of one of the anthology's most touching poems, a regretful rumination on love lost.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/UnBooks:Hutt_River_Anthology   (662 words)

  
 Second Passport
The passports of Hutt River Province are widely accepted around the world by at least 100 countries that apply their own visa requirements as in the general categories.
Hutt River Province has very wide diplomatic representation around the world with Ambassadors, High Commissioners, Trade Attaché etc. Most of the people serving in these roles do so in an honorary capacity.
Hutt River Province has acceded to the Hague Convention on Legalization and has a representative authorized to Apostle documents.
www.lamoneta.net /second_passport.htm   (446 words)

  
 Hutt River Province Paper Money
utt River Province(Principality) is one of the pre-internet inspired micronations.
Hutt River Province has been an active tourist destination as a result of Leonard's notoriety.
In 1973 Hutt issued its first postage stamps and in 1974 Prince Leonard issued a colorful set of five banknotes with his image and signature, shown above.
www.numismondo.com /pm/hut   (281 words)

  
 Appeal of GORDON O'ROURKE - P. S. Docket No. 40/135
O'Callaghan testified that the so-called Hutt River Province "has no official status whatsoever in Australia", but is actually "a private farming community" that he believed to be owned by a Mr.
By its repeated references to Desert Storm coins as legal tender of the Hutt River Province and its explicit statement that the Hutt River Province is a principality, Continental conveys the impression that the Hutt River Province is a sovereign nation with its own currency.
HUTT RIVER PROVINCE--Seceded from the Commonwealth of Aust.
www.usps.com /judicial/1995deci/40-135.htm   (3534 words)

  
 The Imperial Collection - Coins of the Hutt River Province - Page 1
The Hutt River Province is without doubt the most prolific coin-issuing secessionist state in history, having released well over two hundred unique coin types over a period of nearly thirty years.
In its representation to the court the USPS contended that the Hutt River Province was not a legitimate coin-issuing authority, that its coins were not legal tender, and that Continental's advertising claims to the contrary therefore constituted a fraudulent use of the US postal system.
The court ruling dealt a serious blow to the perceived legitimacy of Hutt River coins, and coinciding with the sudden unexpected death of Kevin Gale, resulted in a complete and immediate cessation of the Principality's numismatic ventures.
www.imperial-collection.net /hutt_river_coins_01.html   (789 words)

  
 Australian self-proclaimed independent States
Ralph Bartlett mentions the Hutt River Province, originally a principality (from 1970), but in 1980 upgraded by Prince Roy to a Kingdom.
Hutt River Province came to beeing on the 21.april 1970.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms of the province in the centre.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/au-self.html   (470 words)

  
 The Imperial Collection - Coins of the Hutt River Province - Page 1
The Hutt River Province Principality is a self-proclaimed independent nation-state consisting of an approximately seventy-five square kilometre enclave located 595 kilometres north of Perth, on the western side of the Australian continent.
Formal notifications of the secession were sent to bemused state and federal government officials, and Casley was duly elected to the position of Administrator of the newly-formed Hutt River Province.
In the early 1980s the Hutt River Province unexpectedly declared itself to be a Kingdom, but the experiment proved short-lived, and it just as quickly and inexplicably reverted to its original status of Principality.
www.imperial-collection.net /hutt_river_main.html   (967 words)

  
 Feature Articles
The Hutt River Province Principality is a tiny independent state located in remote Western Australia.
The Hutt River Province Principality, currently not a member of the United Nations, has official diplomatic representatives in more than thirty-five Countries and thousands of overseas citizens active in civic and cultural affairs.
The Hutt River Province Principality of Western Australia, The Principality of Seborga in Northern Italy, The Republic of Saugeais in France, Tibet, Taiwan and many other small micronations may realize their opportunity to be recognized and seated at the United Nations.
www.helleniccomserve.com /huttriver.html   (732 words)

  
 History of  Hutt River Province
The geographic situation of the Principality of Hutt River Province, distant of less than 70 km from Geralton's military base, was making the challenge hazardous.
Proof was given that by behaving as a separate state, the Principality of Hutt River Province asserted its capacities for independence.
Prince Leonard of Hutt River Province is a person exempted in the Australian Law from Taxation under the current guidelines.
www.hutt-river.org /history.htm   (1978 words)

  
 Australian self-proclaimed independent States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ralph Bartlett mentions the Hutt River Province, originally a principality (from 1970), but in 1980 upgraded by Prince Roy to a Kingdom.
Hutt River Province came to beeing on the 21.april 1970.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms of the province in the centre.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/au-self.html   (470 words)

  
 Hutt River Province
The Hutt River Province was never formally acknowledged by the Australian government, and still isn't today.
In response to threats by the new Australian Prime Minister to close their operation, the administration of HRP decided to change to a state ruled by a prince and bestowed title on Leonard, along with the protection of the crown that comes with it.
HRP has survived with tourist activity, as well as their farming.
getaway.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=20140   (703 words)

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