Queensland and Kingsland - Can you split a State in two?

A motion was recently moved in the Queensland Parliament to support the taking of steps to form a separate Australian State of North Queensland. While it failed, it raised the interesting question of whether, and how, a new State can be formed from territory of an 'original State' of the Commonwealth of Australia. This video considers the history of attempts to create new States, the constitutional procedure for doing so, the representation of the new State in the federal Parliament and the practical problems that might be encountered. It concludes with a discussion of whether part of a State could secede from the State but be admitted as a new State to the Commonwealth of Australia. It draws on an attempt to do this during the Lang era in New South Wales in 1931-32, which was only averted by Lang's dismissal.