ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
The Sand People of the West have sent a message out of their hermit kingdom this afternoon thanking the rest of Australia for their concerns over the state’s welfare.
Western Australia is “doing just fine” according to the state’s defacto leader, Mark McGowan.
Mr McGowan, a Novocastrian by birth, responded to a number of messages sent to Western Australia over the past weeks that asked if they were OK during these trying times.
The West effectively cut themselves off from the rest of the world when the COVID-19 pandemic reached our island’s shores.
Since then, not much is known about what’s going on there. Small bits of information have been smuggled out but this message today from Mr McGowan is the first official communique in months.
“We are OK,” said McGowan.
“Thank you for your concern. We are doing just fine and don’t need anybody to come here. Please don’t come here,”
“Our next message will have instructions on when your people will be allowed to come here again,”
“God gewillig. God Seën Wes-Australië.”
More to come.
