Now I am unsure about the numbers involved, but a recent discussion said 75+% of the population is all concentrated in the E of Australia, thereby making outlying regions unimportant politically.
My question then, is this: Would the addition of New Zealand (probably as two provinces) and Fiji (as one) help to weigh this out? And how about E. New Guinea, eventually, if that is not enough? (The Indonesians haven't had much of a problem with ethnic cleansing in the West, why should uber-Australia?)
And what are the effects of electoral fracturing (if this even achieves that)?