Question
Two-thirds of this region voted to secede in a 1933 referendum supported by its leader Sir James Mitchell, but its petition was eventually rejected. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this region, where a George Vancouver expedition claimed Possession point near Albany. James Stirling was the first leader of the Swan River Colony that became this region’s capital.
ANSWER: Western Australia [reject “Australia”]
[10e] Discoveries at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia led to one of these events in the 1890s. In North America, prospectors arrived at the port of Skagway to join one of these events in the Klondike.
ANSWER: gold rushes
[10m] Western Australia had much higher support for expanding this policy’s reach than the nation as a whole in two referendums introduced by Billy Hughes. Two namesake “crises” opposing this policy occurred in Quebec.
ANSWER: conscription [or the draft or equivalents]
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
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| Waterloo Bust | Toronto Penguin World War | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |