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unusual facts about Western Australian



Peter Sterling

After travelling with part of the team to Perth to face a Western Australian team and thus missing a place in the test against Papua New Guinea, Sterlo was presented a golden opportunity by coach Frank Stanton when he was chosen for the first game of the tour against English club side Hull Kingston Rovers.

Rail Safety Act

The centralised regulator proposal has been opposed at times by New South Wales, Victoria and the Western Australian rail safety regulator who have pointed to a lack of quantitative or qualitative evidence of impacts of the current jurisdiction-based national system on operator costs, particularly in light of the predominance of intrastate urban rail movements in Australia over interstate movements.


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Adam Parr

Parr then took up a series of increasingly senior executive posts during six years in Australia, firstly managing Rio Tinto’s extensive port and infrastructure in the remote Pilbara region, then running its Western Australian salt operations.

Albert Jacob

--Can be repeated up to eight times by adding a number-->Albert Paul Jacob (born 16 March 1980) is Minister for Environment and Heritage in the Western Australian Government.

Alex George

Continuing at the Western Australian Herbarium as a botanist, in 1968 he was seconded as Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens in London.

Banksia bee

Western Australian banksias that the bee has been recorded visiting include Banksia ashbyi, B. coccinea, B. hookeriana, B. ilicifolia, B. menziesii, B. prionotes, B. sessilis, and B. speciosa.

Baron Heytesbury

A junior line of the family has attained fortune and fame in Australia, thanks to the business empire of Robert Holmes à Court, who was of South African birth, and his Western Australian wife Janet, now one of Australia's richest women.

Ben Glatzer

The West Australian Music Industry Awards (WAMIs) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc.

Bencubbin, Western Australia

Mount Marshall is named after Captain Marshall MacDermott, who was the first manager of the Western Australian branch of the Bank of Australasia.

Bill Grayden

He is the maternal grandson of Western Australian businessman and politician Nat Harper.

Cannington

Electoral district of Cannington, an electorate of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

Cinema Prague

Although the band never reached the international fame of some of their contemporaries, such as Jebediah or Beaverloop, they remain one of the more revered bands in Western Australian musical history and are regularly cited by younger bands as an influence.

Claremont serial murders

In a memoir titled The End of Innocence, published in 2007, Estelle Blackburn, a Western Australian journalist and author, speculated that her former partner, who had assaulted and threatened many times to kill her, may be the killer; claiming that he had performed maintenance on taxi vehicles and often had overnight access to them.

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)

Colleen Egan

She played a role in obtaining the acquittal of Andrew Mallard, a Western Australian man who had been wrongfully convicted of murder.

Electoral division of Nelson

Electoral district of Nelson, former electorate of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly located in the south-west of the state

George Moysey

When the Marylebone Cricket Club toured Australia in 1907/08, Moysey was picked in the Western Australian team to play them at the WACA Ground.

George Randell

During this time, he also served as the Western Australian chairman of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, director of the Western Australian Bank and president of the Perth Working Men's Association.

George Stone

George Frederick Stone (1812–1875), Western Australian lawyer and Attorney General of Western Australia

George Temple-Poole

His founding and chairing of committees and institutions included; the Western Australian Institute of Architects (later merged to the RAIA), Perth Park (Kings Park Board) and the Wilgie Sketching Society.

Ivor Crapp

In 1914 he travelled to Sydney as the Western Australian representative umpire at the Australian National Football Council Carnival.

Ivor McIntyre

They flew anticlockwise along the eastern coast to Thursday Island, crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria to Darwin, then continued along the Western Australian and South Australian coasts.

James Brayshaw

He is the son of former Western Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer Ian Brayshaw, and the brother of Mark Brayshaw, a former Kangaroos AFL player.

James Hislop

James Gordon Hislop (1895–1972), Australian physician and politician, sat for Metropolitan Province in Western Australian Legislative Council

John Halden

On 3 June 2008, the matter was referred to the Western Australian Corruption and Crime Commission.

Joondalup Family Health Study

The Study is being led by a team of researchers from Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, Lions Eye Institute and Ear Science Institute Australia.

Lions Eye Bank

The Western Australian Lions Eye Bank was established in 1986 and is housed at the Lions Eye Institute in Perth, Western Australia.

Machinery of government

According to KPMG, section 35(1) of the Western Australian Public Sector Act 1994, the Governor of Western Australia may establish, amalgamate or abolish government departments on the recommendation of the Public Service Commissioner.

Malcolm McCusker

In his role as governor, McCusker and his wife serve as the patron for a number of organisations and events, including the Perth International Arts Festival, Telethon, and the West Australian Ballet, and the Western Australian branches of Anglicare, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the Royal Life Saving Society, the RSPCA, and St. John Ambulance.

Marji Armstrong

In 1985, she purchased her Spanish Andalusian stallion, Dulcero, from the van der Drift family in Qld and was influential in the re-formation of the then defunct Western Australian Branch of the Andalusian Horse Association of Australasia.

Montagu House

Monty House (Montague Grant House, born 1946), Western Australian politician

New Country Party

Two Western Australian state upper house MPs elected on One Nation tickets, Paddy Embry and Frank Hough, joined the party and were its only serving MPs until their defeat in the Western Australian state election in 2005.

Oren Yiftachel

In 1983, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Urban and Regional Studies (with distinction) from the Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, and in 1986 a Post-Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning (with distinction) from same institution after it became Curtin University.

Outcome-based education

The core view of this group was their disagreement with the former Western Australian Minister for Education (Ljiljanna Ravlich) in respect to her commitment to implement OBE.

Ray O'Connor

A Western Australian Royal Commission into business dealings by the Government was conducted during 1991 and 1992.

Rindos v Hardwick

Rindos v. Hardwick was a landmark case of Internet defamation heard in 1994 in which Western Australian lawyers representing a visiting American academic sought to create a legal precedent by deeming an email sent by Gil Hardwick to have alleged paedophilia against David Rindos, a probationary lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia.

Ross McLarty

His administration coincided with rapid post-war expansion of the Western Australian economy and, in 1950, conducted negotiations with BP to develop an oil refinery at Kwinana which subsequently developed into the state's main industrial district.

Seat of Kalgoorlie

the Electoral district of Kalgoorlie, an electoral district for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

Seventh Avenue Bridge

Western Australian transport minister Troy Buswell did not believe community involvement was needed in the structural design of the bridge, which had been undertaken by qualified engineers to ensure the new structure would be built on the same footprint, while taking into consideration modern safety and operational standards.

Softball in Western Australia

Western Australian Chelsea Forkin was named the competition's most valuable player and best batter.

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.

Tristan Clemons

In 2009, he played for the Western Australian Thundersticks in the Australian Hockey League.

West Australian Ballet

The West Australian Ballet or WAB is the State ballet dance company of Western Australia and is based in Perth at the Western Australian Ballet Centre in Maylands.

Western Australian Bank, Newcastle Branch

On 28 March 1927 the Western Australian Bank amalgamated with the Bank of New South Wales.

Western Australian Certificate of Education

The Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) is the credential given to students who have completed Year 11 and Year 12 of their secondary schooling in the state of Western Australia, Australia, and is intended to become the Western Australian certificate within the Australian Certificate of Education, part of the Australian Qualifications Framework.

Western Australian Government Railways

While the current Western Australian urban passenger network under Transperth Trains is entirely electrified, between May 1924 and March 1969 the State Electricity Commission operated the only 1067 mm narrow gauge electrified line in Western Australia as part of the WAGR network.

Western Australian state election, 1933

Firstly, it is, to date, the only Western Australian election at which a sitting Premier has been defeated in his own seat, with Sir James Mitchell losing his Northam seat to Albert Hawke.

William Nairn

William Ralph Nairn (1873/4 – 1960), member of Western Australian Legislative Assembly 1914–21.

Z-class

WAGR Z class, a class of diesel-mechanical locomotives of the Western Australian Government Railways