But, it very nearly DID happen here. In civilized NSW no less.Rejakor wrote:Whereas the same thing happening here? Hah. Fat chance.
And I hear rumors that the barbarians in so called "Western Australia" have come close a couple of times too. And thats not even discussing the minor outlying islands, that time Queen Victoria dissolved the largest state on the continent because it offended her, and the whole New Zealand thing.
Also while Australian states largely CHOOSE to co-operate more, they are still remarkably independent of each other if they really want to be, it is, as far as I am aware a voluntary federation, and to some large extent apparently based on the USA model.
So while I have no idea how it works (probably just outright poor information sharing rather than a firm lack of extradition). I personally once knew some guy who rumor had it was hiding out from minor offenses against NSW law by living to South Australia.
I can only assume that South Australia was so hard up for population at the time they they were happy to take petty criminals and guys with multiple unpaid speeding fines.
Either that or most of the state is, as I have always imagined it to be, a lawless Mad Max style waste land where multiple speeding offenses are merely the basic skills you need to escape from the roaming post apocalyptic demolition derby cannibal gangs.