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6PR, known as 6PR Perth, is a commercial radio station based in Perth, Western Australia. Owned by Nine Entertainment, its focus is on news, talk and sport, and is Perth's only commercial talkback radio station. It commenced broadcasting on 14 October 1931.
The clocks were set ahead of GMT by 8 hours in Western Australia; by 9 hours in South Australia (and the Northern Territory, which it governed); and by 10 hours in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. The three time zones became known as Western Standard Time, Central Standard Time, and Eastern Standard Time.
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Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. The city is situated on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Perth was named after the city of Perth in Scotland. [6]
A Perth Town Trust was formed in 1838, but remained largely non-functional for many years due to lack of finance and administrative capacity leading to its dissolution in 1858. [3] The City of Perth was officially declared on 23 September 1856 [4] with Council meeting for the first time in December 1858. [5]
A Perth Amboy man has filed suit in both state and federal court seeking compensation for his 3 ½ years of imprisonment for a crime for which he was later exonerated.
Established by Frederick Vosper and Edward Ellis in 1897, [4] [5] The Sunday Times became a vehicle for Vosper's harassment of Charles Yelverton O'Connor and the Fremantle Harbour works, [6] the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, [7] and Perth's deep sewerage project, [8] from 1898 until O'Connor's death by suicide in 1902. A subsequent government ...
Perth; weekly on Saturday: Not published between 15 February 1840 and 7 March 1840, because of the lack of a compositor; a one-page sheet called The Advertiser was published instead. From 1848 the masthead changed to The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News; survives today as The West Australian. 6 October 1836 ...