History of Calar
Australian Calaré
After ten years of debate, conventions and referenda, Calaré was joined to the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia on the 1 January 1901. When Cook had sailed by 131 years earlier it had been a part of the colony (now state) of New South Wales. Throughout much of the Australian period, there was constant agitation for the separation of Calaré from New South Wales. A number of plans were drawn up over the years, including royal commissions and finally a referendum, which was defeated in 1967.
With a downturn in the world economy during the 1970s, Calaré began to show signs of economic decay. Despite this, some coastal centres enjoyed a boom of development and growth. Duvall and Jervis Harbour both went from being small fishing ports to major resort and tourist centres, outstripping the inland centres and taking away services from these towns. The success of others bred resentment in those towns and communities that had once enjoyed better times. In frustration, this disenfranchised bloc embraced the ideas of the Free Calaré Party, which grew to become a radical group that advocated the removal of overseas interests from Australia and the radical reform of the Australian political system.
Statehood
In 1976 the New South Wales Conservative coalition government lost the March General election to the Labour party by a wide margin. One of the campaign issues was Statehood for Calaré and surrounding areas. The Conservative government had opposed such a move, citing the need to keep the territorial integrity of New South Wales intact. The Labour Party of Jim Marsden were in favour of initiating a process where by the matter was resolved through a series of referenda in the local government areas of the central tablelands and coastal areas. The Free Calaré Party agitated for complete independence but the Labour party at both State and Federal levels favoured a more politically palatable approach of Statehood, whilst the Conservative opposition argued for no change at all. In 1979 the process began with the passing of the Calaré Statehood Referenda bill in both the NSW and Federal Australian Parliament. On the 3rd of September 1979 the Local Government areas of Wingecarribee, Shoalhaven, Kiama, Wollongong, Shellharbour, Eurobodalla, Cabonne, Blayney, Cowra, Bathurst, Oberon, Lithgow, Mudgee, Orange, Forbes, Palerang, Goulburn, Upper Lachlan, Weddin, Parkes, Young, Harden and Yass voted on the question of Statehood for Calaré with the vast majority of the electorate voting YES. This did not please everyone but all political parties agreed to honour the electorates wishes. The 23 council areas on the 14th of Feburary 1981 were proclaimed the seventh state of the Commonwealth of Australia with the State Capital being Duvall.
Civil War
After Fifteen years of Statehood the Free Calaré Party morphed into the United Calaré Militia, which took up arms in early 1996, and was quickly involved in a violent struggle for control of the region. The early years of the Civil War were an insurgency carried out in remote and rugged bushland. The tables turned in 1998 when the militia turned on the towns and began to occupy them against distracted Australian resistance.
By late 1999 the militia had gained control of almost all the towns in the Western and Central regions . Only Jervis Harbour and Duvall, as the centre for government administration in the region, remained under "Australian" control. A counter–attack, know as Operation Taipan, failed to dislodge the rebels, and after some heavy handed actions, led to any remaining support for the government to leech away. A successful ceasefire called was by the international community in early 2000, and would lead to the Treaty of Singapore, which was signed on the 22 May 2000. In the subsequent referendum held in September 2000, 19 local government areas out of the original 23 opted for independence (Harden, Lithgow, Mudgee and Yass voted against) and so formed the Democratic Crowned Republic of Calaré on 1 October 2000.
Independence
The new nation now had to find its way in the world. In the first ten years, it encouraged migration of skilled workers out of the large and overcrowded cities of Australia and invited them to build a new nation, and within the decade the national population had more then trippled. The United Calaré Party would rule for five of the first ten years, laying down much of the political culture that would shape Calaré as we know it today.
Six Day War
Relations with Australia remained strained, and a cold war of sorts lasted throughout the 2000's. Towards the end of the 2000's Australia became more belligerent under the leadership of the conservative Tony Abbott. Abbott made it clear from his election as leader that he would not tolerate Calaré's existence any further, and the election of an impatient and take no prisoners Green Party government in Calaré under Adam Allsop in March 2008 set matters on a rapid spiral to open conflict.
The subsequent Six Day War in July 2008 was an overwhelming victory for Calaré. Between 2008 and 2009, Calaré occupied a significant chuck of Australia, and the military administered these areas as occupied territories. The Calarée had severely damaged the Australian psyche and destroyed the Australian South-West Pacific Fleet. To protect itself, Calaré swiftly embraced an alliance with the Kingdom of New England and other European Nations, with a free trade and military agreement, known as the Treaty of Armidale signed in early 2010.
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