At the 2016 Census, 166,965 England-born Perth residents were counted,[70] ahead of even Sydney (151,614),[72] despite the latter having well over twice the population. [160] [35][36], Perth's development and relative prosperity, especially since the mid-1960s,[37] has resulted from its role as the main service centre for the state's resource industries, which extract gold, iron ore, nickel, alumina, diamonds, mineral sands, coal, oil, and natural gas. [52] The city centre and most of the suburbs are on the sandy and relatively flat Swan Coastal Plain, which lies between the Darling Scarp and the Indian Ocean. Both these streets are pedestrian malls between William Street and Barrack Street. A number of annual events are held in Perth. Perth Children's Hospital is the state's only specialist children's hospital, and Graylands Hospital is the only public stand-alone psychiatric teaching hospital. [16] The only contemporary information on the source of the name comes from Fremantle's diary entry for 12 August, which records that they "named the town Perth according to the wishes of Sir George Murray".

DAB+ has mostly the same as both FM and AM plus national stations from the ABC/SBS, Radar Radio and Novanation, along with local stations My Perth Digital, HotCountry Perth, and 98five Christian radio. [59] While snow has never been recorded in the Perth CBD, light snowfalls have been reported in outer suburbs of Perth in the Perth Hills around Kalamunda, Roleystone and Mundaring. The Indian Pacific passenger rail service connects Perth with Adelaide and Sydney once per week in each direction. Perth is also home to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University, from which many actors and broadcasters have launched their careers.

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Rail freight terminates at the Kewdale Rail Terminal, 15 km (9 mi) south-east of the city centre. [83] Perth is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. Due to Perth's relative isolation from other Australian cities, overseas performing artists sometimes exclude it from their Australian tour schedules. Boodjamooling continued to be a main campsite for the remaining Noongar people in the Perth region and was also used by travellers, itinerants, and homeless people. The relations between the Noongar people and the Europeans were strained due to these events.

[30], In 1933, Western Australia voted in a referendum to leave the Australian Federation, with a majority of two to one in favour of secession. Since the 1950s the area has been dominated by heavy industry, including an oil refinery, steel-rolling mill with a blast furnace, alumina refinery, power station and a nickel refinery.

[110] The university's monumental neo-classical architecture, most of which is carved from white limestone, is a notable tourist destination in the city.

The fluctuating weather of an Australian autumn is showing its extremes. This might explain why it had the coldest day in the entire state on the 4th of July, 1895, with a recorded temperature of -11.0C. [39], The central business district of Perth is bounded by the Swan River to the south and east, with Kings Park on the western end and the railway reserve as the northern border. [149] The museum holds numerous items of significance, including three Victoria Crosses. Surfers no doubt enjoyed the following monster swell with Cape Naturaliste and Albany recording wave heights of up to five metres early on Friday. [29], In 1927, Indigenous people were prohibited from entering large swathes of Perth under penalty of imprisonment, a ban that lasted until 1954. Australian Eurasian Association of WA Inc. 500th Anniversary of Portuguese Landing in Malacca 1511, "The Anglo-Burmese in the 1940s: To become Burmese or not", "2016 ID Community: Greater Perth Religion", "The Jewish population of Australia: Key findings from the 2011 Census", "Three levels of government: governing Australia - Parliament... - Archived Website", "Introduction to the Federal Circuit Court of Australia", "Australian Historical Population Statistics 2008", "Pre-compulsory and compulsory education period", "Rankings of Australian Universities 2016-2017 | AustralianUniversities.com.au", "Australia's Nobel Laureates and the Nobel Prize | australia.gov.au", "Digital TV Switchover Australia  – Perth and surrounding areas", "The Hollywood Reporter's List of the 25 Top Drama Schools", http://pilerats.com/music/bands/julia-jacklin-cry-to-perth-before-the-border-closes/, "Tourists flock to grave of rock stars and icons", "Triffic Triffids come Home for festival", "Watch Tame Impala play to almost nobody in 2008", "Australian actress Melissa George talks home, hardship and her career", "Melissa George Breaks Her Silence: "I've Spent One Year Alone And I'm Doing Okay, "Quarterly Visitor Snapshot – Year Ending March 2012", "Native Species Breeding Program, Perth Zoo", "Spectator Attendance at Sporting Events", "Main Features — Most popular sports attended", "Perth won't' bid for Red Bull Air Race over costs", "Kleenheat Gas gives West Australians a choice of gas supplier", "Premier opens Australia's first major desalination plant", "Kwinana desalination plant open in months", Watch historical footage of Perth and Western Australia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perth&oldid=984548198, Articles with dead external links from May 2016, Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2011 ID different from Wikidata, Use Australian English from November 2015, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Short description is different from Wikidata, All articles with vague or ambiguous time, Vague or ambiguous time from October 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2020, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2008, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2019, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2015, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2013, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 17:48. Perth Arena can be configured as an entertainment or sporting arena, and concerts are also hosted at other sporting venues, including Optus Stadium, HBF Stadium, and nib Stadium. The warmest day was 25.5 °C on 4 June, and the coolest day …

The WACA Ground opened in the 1890s and has hosted Test cricket since 1970. Farmers in WA's Wheatbelt on Thursday made a snowman out of frost that had gathered on their tractor as temperatures at Southern Cross dipped to a state-wide minimum of -2.4 degrees. [51] This water body was known by Aboriginal inhabitants as Derbarl Yerrigan. Tourist Drive 203 is a circular route in the Swan Valley, passing by many attractions on West Swan Road and Great Northern Highway. [54][55] Perth has an average of 8.8 hours of sunshine per day, which equates to around 3200 hours of sunshine and 138.7 clear days annually, making it Australia's sunniest capital city. Perth (/ˈpɜːrθ/ (listen); Nyungar: Boorloo) is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia (WA).

The town was named after the Scottish Perth,[18] in Murray's honour. Boorloo formed part of the territory of the Mooro, a Noongar clan, which at the time of British settlement had Yellagonga as their leader. [142][143] Performers raised in Perth include Tim Minchin,[144] Lisa McCune,[145] Troye Sivan and Isla Fisher. A number of Australians are expected to experience the coldest day of the year this week as an icy blast sends temperatures plummeting. The last hot day of the run, Saturday, registered 32C. Perth houses the Parliament of Western Australia and the Governor of Western Australia. [161] Several motorsport facilities exist in Perth including Perth Motorplex, catering to drag racing and speedway, and Wanneroo Raceway for circuit racing and drifting, which hosts a V8 Supercars round. Suburbs surrounding the Fremantle area, such as Spearwood and Hamilton Hill, also contain high concentrations of Italians, Croatians and Portuguese. This led to it being nicknamed the "City of Light". The cold was felt most during the nights and early mornings with the average minimum temperature for the month dipping to 7.6 degrees - two degrees below average.

A flurry was recorded on the peak, the highest point in the Stirling Ranges, on Friday. The most recent snowfall was in 1968. [158] The two Australian Football League teams located in Perth, the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club, have two of the largest fan bases in the country. Perth Metro recorded a maximum temperature 12.1 °C on 3 August, which was its coldest day for 15 years when a maximum temperature of 12.1 °C was recorded on 15 June 2005. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. Over 39,000 members of the Uniting Church in Australia live in Perth.

Perth receives moderate, though highly seasonal, winter based rainfall.

The minimum is the coldest recorded at Perth Airport station since records began in 1944. As a frontal system ushers Antarctic air into Western Australia giving Perth the coldest April day since 1939, a breeze from the hot interior has just given Adelaide a spell of late summer weather with daily temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius since Tuesday.