Australian regional rivalries
Due to this disagreement, section 125 of the Australian Constitution specified that Melbourne would initially serve as the seat of government on a temporary basis, while the permanent capital of the new Commonwealth must be located within New South Wales but at least 100 miles from Sydney.
In Queensland, there has been a general ill-feeling over the number of sports people leaving their home state for New South Wales, particularly rugby league footballers who left to play for the richer Sydney clubs.
[citation needed] This sporting contest played three times a year now exemplifies this rivalry, dominating the media and public attention in both states during the series.
[citation needed] Much of the rivalry is played out in sport, primarily Australian rules football, and the dish chicken parmigiana.
The use of parmi/parma has led to some heated Twitter debates most recently involving former Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich and Adelaide-born Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley.
Nevertheless, Australian rules in South Australia was the first to form a true governing body and the SANFL remains the oldest league in the game (founded as the SAFA just over two weeks before the VFA in early 1877).
Many SANFL supporters resent the expansion of the VFL to become the Australian Football League, and in particular, the poaching of players from South Australia before the first teams from Adelaide were admitted into the competition.
Port Adelaide Football Club's bid to defect to the AFL in 1990 was seen as a major scandal and an act of betrayal by South Australians.
Many of the club's supporters resent being forced to drop its jumper design and record number of premierships to change leagues upon its final admission in 1997.
Because of this it received many of its settlers from Germany and Austria and German was the de facto second language in South Australia until the First World War.
Early Victoria settlers, on the other hand, were almost entirely English or Gaelic speakers from Great Britain and Ireland.
At the same time, it has abundant natural resources and primary industries that contribute a significant part of Australia's economy, particularly in the mining sector.
Only 6% of the total goods and services tax (GST) allocations to the states and territories is distributed to Western Australia.
[citation needed] It was Western Australia who came up with the State of Origin football concept that was so successful in the 1980s and continues to be in the rugby league version.
[citation needed] Ill feeling because of the unfair financial burden was somewhat soothed by WA winning the shield in their first season.
As a result, the state is not mentioned in the preamble to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (1900) as its support was given too late for the document to be redrafted.
It took no effect because a British parliamentary committee decided the secession referendum was invalid because it didn’t have the support of the Australian parliament.
The Illawarra northern suburbs centred on Thirroul and Corrimal have seen drastic development resulting from overpopulation in the Sydney Cumberland Basin with many local residents upset about being encroached upon by the metropolis.
[citation needed] Jervis Bay was eventually made the site, however territorial separatism is still felt in the region today.
Though this has become less apparent in recent years, there is a historic rivalry between the two sides of the Yarra River in the Metropolitan Melbourne Area.
Traditionally, the Northern and Western suburbs (which lay on the north/right bank of the Yarra River) were industrial, working-class and a major destination for immigrants to Melbourne, whilst the Eastern and Southern suburbs (which lay on the south/left bank of the Yarra River) were by the bay, more affluent and received less immigration.
[20] The cities of Ballarat and Bendigo in Victoria have an ongoing rivalry[21][22] which dates back to the Victorian Gold Rush.
[23][citation needed] Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries the two cities have been of almost identical size in terms of population and commercial importance, as well as claims to being the 'capital' of the Goldfields region of Victoria.
The modern Ballarat vs. Bendigo rivalry extends to sport with Australian rules[25] and basketball[26] teams from each town having notable contests drawing interest from the media and spectators.
Each city is home to a national sports team, the North Queensland Cowboys located in Townsville, and the Cairns Taipans.
[33] The divide has extended to the state's maximum security Risdon Prison, where northern and southern inmates are being separated.
[35] Cartoonist Christopher Downes makes light of the rivalry in the cartoon The Great Divide[36] for the newspaper of the Southern division, The Mercury.
Facebook cartographer Simon Bags recently created this map to document the division of beer drinking in Tasmania.
