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VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
There was dancing in the streets of Gundagai yesterday afternoon, following NSW Government’s surrender to the town’s decade long campaign for autonomy.
The Gundagai Resistance Movement, an armed paramilitary outfit based in the heart of the NSW South-West Slopes, has spent the last nine years waging a violent rebellion against the undemocratically
Through cunning paramilitary tactics and the international fundraising drives, the GRA has proven that there is no government or military in the world that is strong enough to silence the will of the people, as the NSW Leader of the House, Minister Ron Hoenig confirmed the de-merger yesterday afternoon.
The shadowy Brigadier General of the Gundagai Resistance Movement, Sheridan Tucker, has welcomed the State Government’s surrender with humility.
“Not a day has gone by where the Commonwealth did not regret the neoliberal Baird Government’s controversial decision to merge 44 local councils almost a decade ago.”
“We have long said that we will never negotiate a ceasefire until the imperialist entity known as the The Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council (CGRC) was disbanded, and our own local council was re-instated”
The Cootamundra Shire and Gundagai Shire Councils in southern NSW were combined by the then-Coalition government under the guise of improving efficiency and reduce administrative costs.
It was among 19 new councils created from the amalgamation of 44 existing councils, including Snowy Valleys Council, Armidale Regional Council and Central Coast Council.
The merger has long been described by Gundagai locals as a tragic injustice that resulted in job losses across the region, and the redirection of the former Gundagai council’s budget surpluses into fixing potholes in towns as far as 70 kilometres away.
While many resistant movements emerged across the state in the years since the now infamous 2016 amalgamation, the people of Gundagai were by far the most organised and committed to reclaim their right to self-determination.
The Gundagai insurgents benefitted from the backing and solidarity of multiple resistance movement abroad, including the Irish Republican Army, the Basque Independence Movement, and the Front de libération du Québec.
“Too much blood has been shed in the pursuit of freedom” said the Brigadier.
“But we stand by our decisions to take back our council by any means necessary”
With the Gundagai Tigers set to play their historic rivals from Tumut in this weekend’s rugby league fixtures, the GRA has called for calm on the sidelines.
“There may still be bad blood over the wrongs committed against our people, but now is the time for peace.” said the leader.
“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children”
