LIBERAL Democrats MP for Northern Victoria, Tim Quilty, has faced a barrage of questions from the Men’s Probus Club of Wangaratta about his plan to form a new state.

Invited as a guest speaker, the Wodonga-based MP addressed Probus members last week, discussing his time in parliament and explaining in detail his proposal to redraw the map of Australia.

Mr Quilty first proposed the move dubbed “Rexit”, meaning “regional exit”, in his maiden speech to parliament in 2018 where he called for country Victoria and NSW to join forces and split from their capit...