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Portuguese cuisine has also made its way into mainstream Australian society, with the fast expansion and establishment of restaurant and fast food outlets such as "Nando's", "Oporto" and "Ogalo" to confirm its success. The Portuguese "pastel de nata" is a very popular delicacy in Australia and is commonly found throughout the country.
The central plank of the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia suggests the continent called Jave la Grande, which uniquely appears on a series of 16th-century French world maps, the Dieppe school of maps, represents Australia. Speaking in 1982, Kenneth McIntyre described the Dieppe maps as "the only evidence of Portuguese discovery of ...
Greenhouse was an eco-friendly bar and restaurant at 100 St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. [2] [3] With a concept that included being well designed and completely waste free, [4] the restaurant featured a vegetable garden on the roof, a zero-carbon footprint, and ground its own organic flour. [3]
Mundaring is a suburb located 34 km east of Perth, Western Australia on the Great Eastern Highway. The suburb is located within the Shire of Mundaring. The Aboriginal name of the area "Mindah-lung", said to mean "a high place on a high place", was anglicised to become "Mundaring". [2] The Mundaring area is considered to be part of the Perth ...
It has over 50 cafés in Australia, with most in Western Australia. [1] Dôme has also developed a number of locations in Darwin , [ 1 ] in addition the chain had previously opened stores in Tasmania , as well as internationally, including Japan , South Korea , the United Arab Emirates , Indonesia , the Philippines , Malaysia , Bahrain ...
108 St Georges Terrace, also Palace Tower and formerly the South32 Tower, Bankwest Tower, Bond Tower, and R&I Tower, is a fifty-storey office building in Perth, Western Australia. The project was initiated in 1981 and completed in 1988, and the building measures 214 metres (702 ft) to its roof and 247 metres (810 ft) to the tip of its ...
This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia. The list has been sourced from a variety of national, state and local historical sources including those listed on the Australian Heritage Database , on the various heritage registers of the States and territories of Australia , or by the National Trust of Australia .
In the late 1880s Perth Water extended further north than its current boundary, and the river covered part of the area now occupied by the Supreme Court Gardens. What land there was south of the original court house and the Supreme Court building of the time was occupied by the police stables and Waterside Police Station.