This cartoon by West Australian cartoonist Ben Strange comments on the 1917 conscription referendum in which Western Australians voted "Yes" to support the British lion but the overall result was "No". There have been many occasions on which Western Australians have felt at odds with their eastern countrymen. Battye Library [Western Mail Centenary Issue, 1933].

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