Barrack Street is one of two major cross-streets in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia.
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Commercial buildings on the opposite side of the street give way to small retail businesses on both sides between Hay Street and Wellington Street.
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The section between Murray Street and Wellington Street saw a minor urban renewal with Barrack Plaza officially opening on 12 July 2006.
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William Street, one block over to the west, carries the route southbound.
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The street terminates at Wellington Street continuing as Beaufort Street on and over the Barrack Street Bridge which crosses the Midland and Armadale railway lines.
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Moving in an uphill direction away from the Swan River, it passes alongside the Supreme Court Gardens and the Stirling Gardens.
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Together with St Georges Terrace, Wellington Street and William Street it defines the boundary of the main shopping precinct of the central city.
The seat was generally safe for non-Labor candidates and parties throughout its existence, although a redistribution following the abolition of the seat of Perth prior to the 1950 election, which extended the seat east to Barrack Street, enabled Labor to hold the seat for its final three terms.
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The Governor Sir William Campion presided at the placement of a plaque in the wall of the Perth Town Hall on Barrack Street that recorded the centenary celebrations in August.
The main streetscape between Barrack Street and William Street in the 1930s and 1940s constituted considerable uniformity of design and building height, by the late 1970s removal of significant older buildings for taller more modern buildings changed this permanently.
The area of the street facing the Perth railway station to the north, Forrest Place to the south, and bound by Barrack Street to the east, and William Street to the west, was effectively the transport hub of Perth from the 1880s when the first railway station was built, until the 1960s when public transport and private car usage changed significantly in Perth.
Western Australia's first commercial radio station, 6PR, was broadcast from Wireless Hill between 1931 and 1950, relayed from a studio in Barrack Street.
The Blue CAT is between Perth and Northbridge areas, including Barrack Street Jetty and Esplanade Busport.
The level of St Georges Terrace is in effect at the top of a ridge, where the short roads that descend southerly towards Perth Water all provide views of the Swan River, including Barrack Street, Sherwood Court, Howard Street, William Street, Mill Street, and Spring Street.