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Website. www.ecu.edu.au. Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public research university in Western Australia. [8] It is named in honour of the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament, Edith Cowan, and is the only Australian university named after a woman. [9] It is the second-largest university in the state with over 30,000 students ...
Coordinates: 31.949°S 115.855°E. Artist's impression of the Perth City Link, viewed from the north. Yagan Square is visible on the left, transitioning to the King Square precinct, with Perth Arena on the far right. Perth City Link is an urban renewal and redevelopment project in Perth, Western Australia. The project – bounded by the ...
Girdlestone High School: Perth: Perth: 1847: 1960: Formerly Perth Girls'; central school from 1909 (co-located with Perth Boys'); split 1936 to form Perth Central Girls' and Perth Girls' (East Perth); became HS and renamed Girdlestone in July 1946 Hamilton Senior High School: Hamilton Hill: Cockburn: 1962: 2017: HS until 1968; merged into ...
Perth Modern School (colloquially known as Perth Mod) is a public co-educational academically selective high school, located in Subiaco, an inner city suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Perth Modern is Western Australia's only fully academically selective public school. Established in 1911, the school is both the oldest public high school and ...
Curtin University was founded in 1966 as the Western Australian Institute of Technology. [24] The four people who drove its establishment were Lesley Phillips, who was Superintendent of Technical Education from 1943 to 1948; George Hayman, [a] who held the same position from 1948 [25] to 1962; [26] T. L. Robertson, Director of Education; and Haydn Williams, Director of Technical Education.
The influence of town clerk W.E. Bold and the Greater Perth Movement around this time led to the amalgamation of inner city local governments to create a greatly expanded City of Perth until 1993, when the City was broken up once again. The first local government department was established by the state in 1949 to guide local government ...
In the 2011 census, Girrawheen had a population of 8,334. [5] Girrawheen residents had a median age of 33 compared to the Perth median of 37, and median incomes were below average for the state — $494 per week compared with $662 per week. The population of Girrawheen was ethnically mixed — while 53.3% were born in Australia, the next most ...
The Perth metropolitan region or the Perth metropolitan area is the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation. It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in the north to Singleton in the south, and inland to The Lakes in the east, [1] but its extent can be defined ...