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0312-6323. Website. thewest.com.au. The West Australian is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), [2] as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times. It is the second-oldest continuously produced newspaper in Australia, having been published since 1833.
The human history of Western Australia commenced "over 50,000 years ago and possibly as much as 70,000 years ago" with the arrival of Aboriginal Australians on the northwest coast. [1]: 5 The first inhabitants expanded across the east and south of the continent. The first recorded European contact was in 1616, when Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog ...
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent. [5] [text–source integrity?] [citation needed] It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east.
Government. Regional councils, State government. Western Australia (WA) is divided into regions according to a number of systems. The most common system is the division of the state by the Government of Western Australia into regions for economic development purposes, which comprises nine defined regions excluding the Perth metropolitan region.
The Inquirer: a Western Australian Journal of Politics and Literature. Perth; weekly on Wednesday. In 1855 merged with the Commercial News and Shipping Gazette to form The Inquirer & Commercial News. 1 January 1844 – 1 May 1849. The Swan River News and Western Australian Chronicle. Monthly.
971,528 (2021) Website. museum.wa.gov.au. The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969. The museum has six main sites. The state museum, WA Museum Boola Bardip, [ 1 ] is located in the Perth Cultural Centre.
The Government of Western Australia is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia. It is also commonly referred to as the WA Government or the Western Australian Government. The Government of Western Australia, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1890 as prescribed in its Constitution, as ...
Western Australia has the longest coastline of any state or territory in Australia, at 10,194 km [1] or 12,889 km (20,781 km including islands). [2] [a] It is a significant portion of the coastline of Australia, which is 35,877 km (59,736 km including islands).