Explain to me about Perth?

Question

Any Aussies here to explain the
a)History
b)Geography
c)Economy
d)Language/Culture
e)Racial & Religion composition
about PERTH in particular?

(the last time I asked the same question, I went to the dinning out section. silly me. and i realized it should be under the travels.)

smiles. ;D

Answer 1

Im was born and raised in perth... Perth is the Capital city of Western Australia... and we keep voting against daylight savings...

Perth (city, Australia), capital city of Western Australia, south-western Australia located at the foot of Mount Eliza and on the banks of the River Swan, 16 km (10 mi) from its mouth, overlooking the broad reaches of the stretch known as Perth Water. Perth is Australia's most remote state capital and its fourth-largest city, having overtaken Adelaide in the late 1980s. It was named in honour of Sir George Murray, Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time of its founding in 1829, who was Member of Parliament for Perth, Scotland.

Perth has a pleasant climate with cool winters and warm-to-hot summers: average maximum temperatures in January and February are about 31° C (87° F); in June and July minimum averages fall to about 9° C (48° F). The city has a fine natural setting, curling round the River Swan and Perth Water, and has grown steadily throughout this century, particularly since World War II. Suburban expansion has been marked, especially to the north; south-east of the city centre there has been further significant growth of low-cost housing within accessible distance of southern industrial plants. Population 1,176,542 (2001 estimate).


History:

Dutch and French explorers were the first Europeans to sight the Perth area following Dirk Hartog's west-coast sightings in 1616. In 1696, Willem de Vlamingh encountered and named the “Swaene rivier”, the name being suggested to him by the abundance of black swans he saw. But he was by and large unimpressed by what he described as “an arid, barren, and wild land”. French interest in 1801 resulted in François Heirisson's exploration and charting of the River Swan but a later (1807) expedition rejected the site as unsuitable for settlement. British interest was motivated by the immoderate and, to some extent, deluded passion of Captain Sir James Stirling who, encouraged by the favourable opinions of his botanist, Charles Frazer, declared the area to be the equal of the plains of Lombardy. Such was the enthusiasm generated that the phrase “Swan River mania” was coined to describe the atmosphere in which the new settlement was born.

Settlers landed in 1829 and a town site was surveyed by John Septimus Roe. Disastrous confrontations occurred almost immediately between the whites and local Aboriginal tribes though, at the same time, many of the explorers were accompanied and crucially aided by individual Aborigines. Agricultural development was much slower than expected because Stirling had been misled by atypical weather conditions (an unusually cool, wet summer) into thinking the coastal plains would be fertile and productive. In fact, rapid exhaustion of available land engendered expeditions to seek for more. At the same time, labour shortages worsened and this led to the introduction of convict labour (1850). When transportation to the western colony ceased (1868), Perth had grown substantially but it was the discovery of gold in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions and in Kalgoorlie in the 1890s that began Perth's long ascent to mineral-based affluence. After World War II, the flow-on effects of rich deposits of iron ore (for example, that discovered by Lang Hancock in the 1950s in the Hamersley Range) and other minerals discovered at various West Australian sites, together with massive immigration, underwrote the transformation of Perth physically, economically, and socially.

Since specific party designations were adopted in 1904, West Australian electors have returned 11 Labor governments and 13 Liberal or Conservative Coalition governments. Labor administrations in the 1980s (Burke, 1983-1988; Dowding, 1988-1990) presided over the era of flamboyant, risk-taking business tycoons and unprecedented levels of financial venturing (see Venture Capital). Allegations of scandal and corruption associated with much of this activity brought this era to an end: several former tycoons faced bankruptcy and corruption or malpractice charges, and the Burke government and its successor were discredited. Though the Labor administration of Carmen Lawrence (1990-1993) restored respectability, a backlash saw Richard Court elected to lead a Liberal and Country Party coalition from 1993 amid an atmosphere of much greater caution and tightened responsibility and accountability.

The High Court of Australia's Mabo Judgment on Native Land Title 1992, which conceded the entitlement of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia to their traditional lands in accordance with their laws and customs, has a particular and profound significance for Western Australia, where more than half the state is Crown land and therefore subject to Native Title claims. The court government's view was that a decision about Murray Island (the basis of the Mabo Case) should not be generalized to the mainland and that, in any case, land administration was traditionally and constitutionally a state responsibility. Western Australia under the court government was thus set on a collision course with the Commonwealth government and this confrontation was exacerbated when Western Australia unsuccessfully challenged the validity of the Commonwealth's Native Title legislation. Native Land Title is thus perhaps the single most divisive and explosive issue facing the West Australian Government at this time.

Geography:
Perth is on the West Coastline and is relatively flat, though there are hills towards the eastern suburbs

Economy:
Fremantle, 17 km (11 mi) south-west of Perth at the mouth of the River Swan, is the principal port for the city and the state and is part of the greater Perth city complex.

Isolation dictates that many of Perth's consumer goods be manufactured locally, and this necessity tends to mitigate the effects of Perth's being essentially an administrative and service centre rather than an industrial city. Much industrial development is concentrated at Kwinana, 19 km (12 mi) south of Perth on Cockburn Sound. Kwinana, a holiday town before the 1950s, is now the site of sophisticated port and oil refinery facilities, alumina and nickel refining, chemicals production, electricity generation, diverse engineering works, and iron-ore, bauxite, and petroleum processing. Other products of the Perth area are metal goods, processed food, rubber goods, building materials, and printed fabrics. Perth is an important railhead and the commercial, manufacturing, and cultural hub of the state.

Language/Culture:

Perth is very diverse, while the language is English obviously due to the diverse culture many languages are spoken in Perth, including the various native tounges of the Aboriginies


Racial/Religious:

Again very very diverse, everything is in perth

Places of Interest:

The centre of opera and dance in Perth is His Majesty's Theatre, a historic building that has been opulently restored. The Art Gallery of Western Australia, part of the Perth Cultural Centre specializes in Australian works and Aboriginal art and artefacts. An art-in-public-places programme has resulted in sculptures sponsored by the gallery being placed in the Northbridge plaza approach. The Cultural Centre is also the location of the Western Australian Museum, a conglomerate of diverse buildings in which are arrayed spectacular demonstrations of the Western Australian natural world and the history of its inhabitants. The Aboriginal Gallery presents a profile of indigenous history and culture and the marine gallery boasts a 24 m (79 ft) blue whale skeleton. The Concert Hall and Entertainment Centre are 1990s additions to general cultural life in Perth. The suburb of Bull Creek is the location for the largest aircraft and aviation museum in Australia. The Festival of Perth is held annually and its many dramatic, literary, musical, and other features are spread among these venues and elsewhere.

Other cultural, institutional, and educational places of importance in Perth are the Old Perth Boys School, now housing the National Trust; St George's Cathedral and its 1859 Deanery; Government House, built in the 1850s; The Cloisters (1858), Perth's first secondary school; the Old Court House (1837), Perth's oldest surviving building; The University of Western Australia (1911); Murdoch University (1973); Curtin University of Technology (1987); and the Edith Cowan University incorporating the West Australian Academy of the Performing Arts (1991).

Among the writers from Western Australia prominent on the national and international scene are Elizabeth Jolley, Mudrooroo, Nicholas Hasluck, Philip Salom, Dorothy Hewett, and Tim Winton.

Perth also has its own Botanical Gardens and Zoological Gardens. The most spectacular of Perth's considerable parkland and related expanses is Kings Park. Situated near central Perth, in the area known as Mount Eliza, this huge belt of natural Australian bushland blooms each southern spring (September to November) with thousands of brilliant native wildflowers. Few cities in the world have such a treasure of native landscape so close to the urban centre. Since 1829, this area has been successfully and continuously dedicated to natural conservation, recreation, and botanic display. Monuments and memorials dot those parts of the park not given over to natural bush.

Answer 2

I'm not an Aussie, but I lived in Northbridge, Perth for some time...
as for A to C, you might want to look that up...D) English... part of D and E, the city is very diverse...

Answer 3

I'm from Perth but to explain all that would take a very long time.Check out Wikipedia.But I can tell you it is boring here.

Answer 4

Perth is the best city in australia

Answer 5

If no one else answers you, email me and I will let you know by tomorrow. I am saying this because my husband was raised there. I will ask him for you. I do know the main langiage is English and it is a upscale type of city.

Answer 6

How to answer this in Yahoo Answers? do your own research, in places like wikipaedia, that is, if no one else,has all the time in the world to answer all that you ask!