13 January

Let’s pretend Orange, the town, declared it was going to separate from the rest of Australia. Like the UK is trying to do with Europe. How long would the Orange people know and love survive? Ask that question about any town or even city, and it seems obvious how ridiculous the idea of separation is. So it’s very interesting that when we ask this at a country level, many don’t think the same thing. Some people genuinely seem to not see that the country they want to isolate from the rest of the world wouldn’t even exist, without the connection to that world. They have it totally backwards.