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Perth is a mining town. Mining is a major source of revenue for Western Australia and hence the state is relatively wealthy and has the highest median household income of any Australian capital city. The picture shows the precinct at the ground floor for one of the major mining companies. This is repeated throughout the city with some lovely grounds
There's a really nice park across the bay from downtown Perth (joggers, dog walkers, restaurants, just generally nice vibes) that looks great with a long exposure (90 seconds).
27020 pauses at a rather damp Perth with an afternoon Dundee - Glasgow service.
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New development along South Perth foreshore where there are some hanging chrome balls. Problem is that they are rotating so took a few shots to get the city reflection and in focus. Looks very surreal.
Looking towards 'South Perth' across the 'Narrows Bridge'.
Perth City, Western Australia
WHY - if there is 'Global Warming' do they still build bigger Buildings and go for bigger Economies and Larger Populations... :-(( LIES OR JUST STUPID!
The City of South Perth is a local government area in the inner southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of 19.9 square kilometres (7.7 sq mi), maintains 203 kilometres (126 mi) of roads and a little over 4.3 km2 of parks and gardens, and had a population of about 42,000 at the 2016 Census. The City is the entirety of the state electoral district of South Perth. An area of Kensington joined into South Perth after the 2013 redistribution, although dwindling population growth in Victoria Park may mean that part of the City will move back.
The area broadly forms a peninsula, being bounded on three sides by the waters of the Swan and Canning rivers.
History
The South Perth Road District was formed on 9 June 1892 and the district became a municipality as the Municipality of South Perth on 21 February 1902. It then reverted to a road district on 1 March 1922, but regained municipality status on 1 March 1956. It was granted city status on 1 July 1959.
In 2014, the WA State Government mounted a proposal for local government reform; the City of South Perth was proposed to be amalgamated with the Town of Victoria Park, together with a sizable portion of the City of Canning. A poll took place during January–February 2015, with the question: "Should the City of South Perth and the Town of Victoria Park be abolished and amalgamated to form a new local government?". The informally (non-binding) suggested name for the new entity was 'City of South Park'.
In order for the poll to prevent the amalgamation from proceeding, at least 50% of electors from either local government were required to vote, and of those, more than half needed to vote against the proposal. At the conclusion of the poll at 6.00pm on 7 February 2015, the outcome was that for South Perth, 50.83% of the City's 26,789 electors voted, with 77.75% voting against the proposal. Although only 38.02% of the Town of Victoria Park's 20,136 electors voted, of those, a clear majority (61.58%) voted against the proposal. However, with more than 50% poll returns, the City of South Perth response was sufficient to cancel the amalgamation of these local governments, and they remained as separate entities.
Perth, Western Australia
When the Dutch explorer, Willem de Vlaming, ventured up the river as far as Perth in 1697, he noticed the large number of black swans there and named it the Swan River. Although the French travelled up the Swan River as far upstream as Whiteman Bridge in 1801, it wasn't until 1829 that European settlement occurred, following Captain James Stirling's exploratory voyage in 1827.
Initially the Swan River was the only transport route, and locations to settlers were long and narrow to give everyone a river frontage. The input of convict labour in the area between 1850 and 1868 was critical for the establishment of roads and the building of Barkers Bridge and the Upper Swan Bridge.
swan.wa.gov.au
Crawley Edge Boat Shed is a very popular place for photographs. There was no less than 12 people come and go when I was there. The Crawley Edge Boat Shed was built in the early 1930s.
Elizabeth Quay is a mixed-use development project in the Perth central business district. Encompassing an area located on the north shore of Perth Water near the landmark Swan Bells, the precinct was named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II during her Diamond Jubilee.
47712 heads for Perth with the Queen St-Perth leg of the SRPS's Bo'ness-Crewe charter. Gleneagles, just after 1515, 30th December 2024.
Perth and the River Tay at dawn as mist and fog rolls in.
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On the way back from Dundee we called into Perth to get something to eat & came across this anti-brexit march/demo.
Everyone was very friendly and polite and keen to chat.
& some music if you like
Television Personalities -Part-Time Punks
Perth City
Elizabeth Quay
I have always wanted to shoot the city lights at Perth's, Elizabeth Quay.
Tonight, I captured Perth City in the act from the beautiful vibrant colours to the fast movement of night lights (using long exposure).
The reflection of the lights from the water really brings out the colours of Perth.
This was taken minutes before the heavy rainfall appeared.