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Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, ...
Western Australia Day or simply WA Day [1] (formerly known as Foundation Day) [2] [3] is a public holiday in Western Australia (WA), celebrated on the first Monday in June each year, [4] to commemorate the founding of the Swan River Colony in 1829.
Western Australia occupies nearly one third of the Australian continent.Due to the size and the isolation of the state, considerable emphasis has been made of these features; it is the second largest administrative territory in the world, after Yakutia in Russia, despite the fact that Australia is only the sixth largest country in the world by area, and no other regional administrative ...
Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi), and is also the second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth, surpassed only by the Sakha Republic in eastern Russia, and formerly Northwest Territories in Canada, before the creation of Nunavut. It is also the largest proper ...
The first schools started to appear during the 1830s throughout the state, in the form of one-teacher schools. The oldest government-sponsored education institution in Western Australia, Guildford Colonial School (now Guildford Primary School), was founded at the Swan River Colony in 1833, and consisted of several premises in the townsite before a purpose built school was constructed in 1870. [4]
As early as 1898, the land was reserved for conservation and recreation. Two years later, it was named Greenmount National Park. [2] [failed verification] It was still being identified as National Park in the late 1930s, [3] [4] and it was not until 1947 that the name change occurred to commemorate Sir John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia.
The Western Plateau is Australia's largest drainage division [1] and is composed predominantly of the remains of the ancient rock shield of Gondwana.It covers two thirds of the continent; 2,700,000 square kilometres (1,000,000 sq mi) of arid land, including large parts of Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory.
Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, Western Australia has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, Western Australia ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers in all matters ...