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A farm that claimed to be a micro-nation in 1970, when the landowner had a strop over wheat quotas and declared independence from Australia. His farm became a cod-Ruritanian tourist attraction, with its own currency, stamps, constitutional flim-flam, and the "Prince" got up in the sort of cheap fustian used in school productions of King Lear. His death, and an unpaid tax bill of $2 million, put an end to the pantomime in 2020. His Nibs was cremated, Quodam et Eris Rex.
The Principality of Hutt River, often referred to by its former name, the Hutt River Province, was a micronation in Australia, proclaimed on 21 April 1970 when farmer Leonard Casley declared his farm to be a sovereign state, the "Hutt River Province". He claimed to have seceded from Australia, which occurred during his dispute with the authorities concerning wheat production quotas. A few years later, Casley began styling himself as "Prince Leonard" and granting family members royal titles, although he did not include the word "principality" in the official name until 2006. In 2017, Casley's claim to rulership was taken over by his son Graeme, who dropped the claim to sovereignty on 3 August 2020.
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A pair of projecting walkways 100 m above the Loop where the gorge winds back on itself. They're wheelchair accessible, and the kiosk sells water. Toilets here. A trail leads you through the narrow bands of sedimentary rock, where Nature’s Window is the arch shown in all the tourist brochures.