Auralia

[2] The name, meaning 'golden' in Latin, denotes the gold industries that were alive at the time and which helped foment the ideas of secession.

The proposed colony would have comprised the Goldfields, the western portion of the Nullarbor Plain and the port town of Esperance.

[4] Many inhabitants in the goldfields had come to Western Australia from the other colonies in the previous decade when Kalgoorlie experienced a gold rush and their loyalties were thus not usually directed towards Perth.

[5] Sir John Forrest's efforts to secure concessions before fully supporting federation was alienating these new arrivals.

The name Auralia was used by a journalist writing in the Coolgardie Miner after federation, and before the First World War.