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53 unusual facts about Perth


1985 Asian Baseball Championship

The tournament was held in Perth, Australia; the first time that the tournament had been held outside the continent of Asia.

1993 Asian Baseball Championship

The tournament was held in Perth, Australia for the second and likely last time; Australia has not participated in the tournament since joining the Baseball Confederation of Oceania.

ABC Great Southern

When local programs are not broadcast the station is a relay of ABC South Coast and 720 ABC Perth.

It was originally built solely as a retransmission facility, relaying 6WF from Perth to the greater southwest area of the state.

Adam Voges

From Perth, Western Australia, Voges excelled at cricket from an early age, attending the Western Australian Institute of Sport and playing both Test and ODI matches for the Australian under-19 cricket team.

Amanda Muggleton

Out of Marvellous Party! came Darling It's Noel, produced by International Concert Attractions and directed by Rodney Fisher at the Sydney Opera House in May 2004 and at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth in June 2004.

Barrack Street

The section between Murray Street and Wellington Street saw a minor urban renewal with Barrack Plaza officially opening on 12 July 2006.

William Street, one block over to the west, carries the route southbound.

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.

Moving in an uphill direction away from the Swan River, it passes alongside the Supreme Court Gardens and the Stirling Gardens.

Together with St Georges Terrace, Wellington Street and William Street it defines the boundary of the main shopping precinct of the central city.

Brian Faehse

Faehse represented South Australia with distinction 19 times between 1948 and 1956 and played in the 1950 (Brisbane), 1953 (Adelaide) and 1956 (Perth) Australian National Football Carnival's.

Brian Muggleton

The son of Merv Muggleton, who had played baseball for Sturt and South Australia, Muggleton was born in Adelaide, South Australia, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia, in 1949, after his father was transferred.

Brigidine Sisters

From there branches quickly spread to the dioceses of Sydney, Bathurst, Canberra-Goulburn, Perth and Brisbane as well as to the Archdiocese of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1898.

Claremont railway station

Claremont railway station, Perth in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Colin Milburn

Milburn returned to Perth, where he enjoyed a prolific season for Western Australia.

Douglas Wiseman

Wiseman was also a public school board chair, and a trustee of St. Paul's United Church in Perth, Ontario.

Drew McPherson

Drew William McPherson was born on December 25, 1976 in Perth, Ontario, Canada.

Fair Work Ombudsman

The Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman has offices located in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and many regional locations.

Frank Counsell

He returned to Adelaide, where for a year or so he worked for Edward Davies and Cavanagh, then moved to Perth, where he gained more eperience with railway stations, then returned to South Australia where his interstate experience gained him design work on the Adelaide Railway Station.

Gita Gutawa

The following year, she appeared in her first feature-length film, Love in Perth, in which she played a shy student studying in Perth, Australia.

Glenn Trimble

Trimble played in 57 Sheffield Shield and other first-class matches for Queensland between 1982–83 and 1989–90 and two One Day International World Series Cup matches in Perth and Adelaide against New Zealand in 1985–86 under Allan Border.

Graham Stewart

Graham Stewart (born 1975 in Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish broadcaster who currently presents The Business on BBC Radio Scotland.

Greg Blewett

He followed that with a century in the WACA Ground in Perth during his second match and scored a century at Edgbaston in England in 1997 and scoring three centuries in his first three Ashes Test series.

Ian Millar

He operates "Millar Brooke Farm" near the small town of Perth, Ontario.

John Balmer

Partnered by a fellow officer, he set a cross-country record of 65 hours and 10 minutes travelling from Perth, Western Australia, to Melbourne in December 1936.

Ken MacLeay

In 2001, MacLeay was named as a life member of the WACA Ground in Perth for his contributions to cricket.

Lorne Argyle Campbell

He was born in Perth, Ontario, the son of John G. Campbell and Helen Gray Murdoch, and was educated at Perth Collegiate.

Love in Perth

Starring Gita Gutawa, Derby Romero, Petra Sihombing, and Michella Putri, it tells the story of Lola, an Indonesian student studying in Perth, Australia, who falls in love with another Indonesian student, Dhani.

National Campus Band Competition

Since then, the National final has travelled around the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Lismore, Adelaide and Wollongong) and the competition has attracted more and more bands, as well as receiving great kudos from the music industry.

Nicholas Tritton

Nicholas "Nick" Tritton (born July 20, 1984 in Perth, Ontario) is a male judoka from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division (– 73 kg) at the 2007 Pan American Games, alongside Cuba's Ronald Girones.

Ommatoiulus moreleti

Since being introduced to Port Lincoln, South Australia in 1953, the millipede has spread to other parts of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, southern New South Wales and Western Australia around Perth

Perth, New York

Mike Tyson, boxer, was a one-time resident of the Tryon School for Boys in the town.

Perth, Tasmania

Federal Lyons MHR Eric Hutchinson also has an office in the town.

Preston Point

It is located in the Perth suburb of East Fremantle, about 12 km south west of the city centre.

Russell Dumas

A bronze plaque with Dumas's name was laid in the footpath of St Georges Terrace, Perth as part of the WAY 1979 celebrations to commemorate 150 notable figures in Western Australia's history.

St Georges Terrace

St Georges Terrace was named after St George's Cathedral.

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.

Suta suta

In Victoria the curl snake occurs only in the north and central regions and in Perth it is restricted to the far north eastern boundaries.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Anglican Archbishop Peter Carnley used the story as a reference and a metaphor for the situation of women in the church in his sermon at the ordination of the first women priests in Australia on 7 March 1992 in St George's Cathedral, Perth.

Tobique River

The river rises from Nictau Lake in Mount Carleton Provincial Park and flows for 148 kilometres to its confluence with the Saint John River near Perth-Andover.

Tom Hungerford

A. G. Hungerford, was an Australian writer, noted for his World War II novel The Ridge and the River, and his short stories that chronicle growing up in South Perth, Western Australia during the Great Depression.

Tom Moody

Schooled at Guildford Grammar School in Perth, where his father was headmaster, he exhibited great talent for athletics (particularly the high jump) and Australian rules football but truly excelled at cricket being selected to train with the 1st XI side (usually made up of year twelve students) at just thirteen, and play with them the following year.

Tony Lock

After retirement he moved into coaching in Perth and London, but late in life faced two separate charges of sexual abuse.

Tree Martin

This is most common in western Australia, where breeding occurs even in large cities like Adelaide and Perth.

Victoria Avenue, Perth

On the corner of Victoria Avenue and St Georges Terrace, a school named Christian Brothers College existed, it was located at that site until 1961 when it was demolished.

Vincent O'Brien

O'Brien and his wife latterly spent half of each year in her home town of Perth, Australia and the remainder of the year in Ireland.

Wellington Street, Perth

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.

Wellington Street is part of State Route 65, which continues south from the street's eastern end to Riverside Drive, near The Causeway, and from the western end of the street to West Coast Highway south of City Beach.

William E. Nelson

William E. Nelson (born February 18, 1941) was an environmental wax researcher from Perth, Ontario, Canada.

William Street, Perth

This is followed by Murray and Hay streets, which are pedestrian malls to the east; and then St Georges Terrace, which is a through-route for vehicular traffic.

William Street began as a two-way street, and during the era of trams in Perth, there were tramline along it.

William Street is a suburban distributor and one of two major cross-streets in the CBD of Perth, Western Australia.


1984 World Women's Curling Championship

The 1984 World Women's Curling Championship, the women's world curling championship, was held from March 25-30 at the Perth Ice Arena in Perth, Scotland.

1987 Defender Selection Series

The third syndicate was a well funded group known as Taskforce '87 and headed by Perth businessman Kevin Parry. Taskforce '87 built three boats, Kookaburra (KA-11), Kookaburra II (KA-12) skippered by Peter Gilmour and Kookaburra III (KA-15) skippered by Iain Murray.

2012 Australian Baseball League postseason

The Perth Heat were the first team to clinch a postseason position when they defeated the Brisbane Bandits in Perth on 8 January, and then clinched a first place finish in their next game when they defeated the Canberra Cavalry in Canberra on 12 January.

Adam Said Galore

Adam Said Galore were formed in 1994, by Michael Lake on guitar, Matt Maguire on drums, Andrew Ryan on guitar and lead vocals, and Simon Struthers on bass guitar, in the Perth suburb of Greenwood.

Air data inertial reference unit

On 1 August 2005 a serious incident involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 124, occurred when a Boeing 777-2H6ER (9M-MRG) flying from Perth to Kuala Lumpur also involved an ADIRU fault resulting in uncommanded manoeuvres by the aircraft acting on false indications.

American Ship Hull numbers

For example the Perth class guided missile destroyers that were built for the Royal Australian Navy in Bay City, Michigan were given the hull numbers DDG-25, DDG-26, and DDG-27; but these hull numbers were not assigned to any American destroyers after the Australian Navy had changed those to its own identification numbers.

Amuza

Amuza Motors Pty Ltd of Perth is an Australian automotive company which exhibited its Ford Falcon-based stretch limo at the 2003 Tokyo Auto Salon.

Barrie-Jon Mather

He stated that Stuart Raper had spoken to him whilst out in Perth for the World Club Challenge match and convinced him Castleford was the club for him.

Beeliar

Beeliar Wetlands, two chains of lakes and wetlands running north-south through the southern suburbs of Perth.

Botany 2000

Neville Marchant, Director of the Western Australian Herbarium in Perth, has been involved in the Botany 2000-Asia programme since its inception.

Brad Hardie

After initially living in Perth, Hardie now lives in Melbourne and works exclusively for 882 6PR.

Brian Luckhurst

He made 131 in the Second Test at Perth in its inaugural Test match, and so became the first batsman to make a Test century at the WACA.

Carlingford, New Brunswick

It is on the International Boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, midway between Perth-Andover and Fort Fairfield.

Chicken Treat

During the first season of the reality TV series Big Brother, adverts replicated the 'bum dance' of Perth contestant Sara-Marie Fedele.

Clarissa House

She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Theatre Arts degree from Perth's Curtin University (formerly the Western Australian Institute of Technology)

Dugite

The last death attributed to a dugite was in 1993 after an elderly woman died in Spearwood, Perth.

GWN7

Seven News Perth and Today Tonight are aired live across the network direct from Perth.

High Wycombe, Western Australia

Routes 296 and 299 provide the primary service for High Wycombe, operating to Esplanade Busport in the Perth CBD via Great Eastern Highway, or to Kalamunda bus station in Kalamunda, a regional centre of the Perth Hills.

Jeff Martin 777

Following the disbanding of his group The Tea Party in 2005, Canadian singer-songwriter Jeff Martin lived for sometime in Ireland before settling in Perth.

Joe the Cameraman

Before an AFL game in Perth on May 29, 2009, Richmond footballer Ben Cousins gave the finger in the direction of a camera in the changerooms.

John Burns Hynd

Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925.

Ladislav Mucina

He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.

Louis Kahan

After travelling across the United States he moved to Perth, Western Australia to join his family, who had emigrated to Australia before the war.

Malcolm Clark

At the age of 23 Malcolm was offered to become a member of up and coming Perth band The Sleepy Jackson.

Marcelo Branco

Among other successes, he was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, and World Open pairs Championship in New Orleans 1978 and Geneva 1990.

Max Cramer

This included the Zeewijk, wrecked in the Pelsaert Group of the Houtman Abrolhos in 1727, which he dived on earlier in 1963, and the Zuytdorp which came to grief when it struck the Zuytdorp Cliffs, 560 kilometres north of Perth, in 1712.

Natalie Medhurst

In 2014, Medhurst will be moving to Perth to play for the West Coast Fever, reuniting with her former Australian coach Norma Plummer, shifting with Firebirds wing attack Chelsea Pitman, and forging stronger links with Australian goal shooter Caitlin Bassett.

Ong Keng Sen

He is particularly well known for his performance at the Perth Festival of King Lear in 1997, his Desdemona at the Adelaide Festival, Australia in 2000, and his Search:Hamlet at the Kronbourg Castle in Elsinore and Copenhagen.

OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon

The ‘sugar scoop’ became famous again on 21 July 1969, the day of the Apollo 11 moon landing, relaying Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon from NASA's Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canberra, to Perth's TV audience via Moree earth station - the first live telecast into Western Australia.

Perth-Andover

Much of Perth was originally part of the territory of the Tobique First Nation, whose reserve was established in 1801, at the band's request.

Ralph Simmonds

Simmonds was Foundation Dean (1992–95, 1997-2003) and Foundation Professor of Law at Murdoch University in Perth.

Rewind Festival

The Scottish 80's Rewind Festival took place at the Scone Palace grounds near Perth on the 29th, 30 & 31 July 2011.

Richard Weller

He is also identified as a major proponent for the Elizabeth Quay project in Perth, Western Australia, and this can be found in the contents of Boomtown where he uses quotes from various supporters and detractors of the project.

Rise Up Australia Party

In a 2011 interview with Perth's "Out in Perth", Nalliah stated that homosexuals can be turned back to heterosexual relationships through education and through Christ.

Robert Bropho

During the 1930s Bropho, his parents and eleven siblings camped in a swamp at Swanbourne in the western suburbs of Perth.

Royal Perth Hospital

Several well-known practitioners and medical researchers have worked at Royal Perth Hospital over the years, including Dr Fiona Wood, winner of the 2005 Australian of the Year Award, and Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren, winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology.

Rugby league in Western Australia

On 14 February 2009 Members Equity Stadium in Perth played host to the first NRL pre-season match for the year between St George-Illawarra Dragons and Sydney Roosters.

Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron

Byron was the elder son of Colonel Wilfrid Byron, of Perth, Western Australia, and of Sylvia Mary Byron née Moore, of Winchester, England, the only daughter of the Reverend C. T. Moore.

Ryan Mitchell

At the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Mitchell finished fifth in the 200m breaststroke and then won silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, behind fellow Australian Simon Cowley, who won both breaststroke events.

St. Johnstone F.C. in European football

A Frazer Wright goal in Trondheim, the home city of Rosenborg, gave the Perth club a chance of proceeding to the next round and, despite an early goal by Rosenborg in the home leg at McDiarmid Park, a Stevie May goal in front of 7,850 supporters (almost all behind the home club) was enough for St. Johnstone to earn a place in the third qualifying round against FC Minsk of Belarus.

Stagecoach Strathtay

Strathtay Scottish purchased a number of ex-London Transport Routemaster buses to counter the competition, which also used a number of the same vehicle type on city services in Perth.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Tim Maddren

In 2003 Maddren moved to Perth, Australia to study at the WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) from which he graduated in 2005.

Tiwest Joint Venture

Most synthetic rutile from Chandala was then trucked to Kwinana, 30 km south of Perth, to the Tiwest-owned pigment plant, which produces titanium dioxide aka TiO2.

WASM

Western Australian School of Mines, a tertiary institution revolving around Western Australia's mining industry based in Kalgoorlie and Perth, Western Australia

Will Stoker and the Embers

Returning to Perth in 2007, Stoker reformed the band with Brett Murray ( The Wire Complex) added on keyboards and entered the band in the Next Big Thing band competition and the National Campus Band Competition.