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Western Australia is the world's largest iron-ore producer (34% of the world's total), and extracts 66% (6.9% of world production) of Australia's 306 tonnes (9.8 million troy ounces) of gold in 2022. [53] It is a major world producer of bauxite, which is processed into alumina at four refineries providing 11% of total world production.
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 ...
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 ...
The Western Australian system of regions defined by the Government of Western Australia for purposes of economic development administration, which excludes the Perth metropolitan region, is a series of nine regions. These nine regions were established by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993, which defined their extents and established ...
Political geography. Western Australia is divided into 139 local government areas, each of which is known as a city, town, or shire. These jurisdictions range in area from 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi) (Peppermint Grove) to 372,301 square kilometres (143,746 sq mi) (East Pilbara) and in population from little more than 100 (Sandstone) to more ...
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 other sites are: the WA Maritime Museum and WA Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle, the ...
Introduction. Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent. [text–source integrity?] 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.