The Electoral district of Perth is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The North Metropolitan electoral region is an electoral region of Western Australia. The Legislative Assembly, or lower house is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 57 single-member electoral districts. The Commonwealth of Australia is made up of 8 states and territories controlled under a federal system of government Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. Perth is named for the capital city of Western Australia whose central business district falls within its borders. It is one of the oldest electorates in Western Australia, with its first member having been elected in the inaugural 1890 elections of the Legislative Assembly. It is currently regarded as a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, which has held it consistently since 1968. The present Member, John Hyde, was first elected in the 2001 election. John Norman Hyde (born 13 October 1957 in Hamilton Victoria) is the sitting member in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for

Geography

Boundaries of Perth, 1962–2005.

Map showing 2005 boundaries and changes at the 2007 redistribution.

At present (2008), Perth is bounded by the Swan River to the south and southeast, Mitchell Freeway to the west, Green Street to the north, and Central Avenue to the northeast. The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. Kwinana Freeway Mitchell Freeway is a long major arterial road in Perth, Western Australia linking Perth with the northern suburbs Its boundaries include the suburbs of East Perth, Highgate, Leederville, Menora, Mount Hawthorn,^[1] Northbridge and Perth, along with most of Mount Lawley, the southern and western parts of North Perth and a small section of West Perth. East Perth is a suburb of Perth Western Australia, located next to the Perth CBD Highgate is a small suburb of Perth Western Australia, located within the Town of Vincent and north of the CBD. Leederville is a locality within the Town of Vincent within the Perth metropolitan region of Western Australia. See Menorah about the special lamp holy to Judaism. Menora is a Suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Mount Hawthorn is a suburb of Perth Western Australia, located within the Town of Vincent. Northbridge is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, best known for its Nightlife. Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. Mount Lawley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Most of the suburb lies within the Local Government Area of the City of Stirling and North Perth is a suburb of Perth Western Australia, located within the Town of Vincent. West Perth is a suburb 600 metres west of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. ^[2]

The 2007 redistribution, which comes into effect at the 2009 election, will exclude all of Menora and Mount Lawley northeast of Walcott Street, while including all of West Perth as well as Kings Park. Kings Park is a park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia Central business district. ^[3]

Historically, the boundaries included a much smaller area. In 1911, it only covered the central business district and Northbridge, and in 1929, a section between Newcastle and Bulwer Streets was added. Northbridge is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, best known for its Nightlife. When it was recreated from parts of the abolished West Perth and East Perth districts at the 1961 redistribution,^[4] the Perth electorate included all of West Perth and part of Kings Park, but its northern boundary only extended to Vincent Street, Hyde Park and the East Perth railway station. Kings Park is a park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia Central business district. Hyde Park (formerly Third Swamp Reserve) is an inner-city park in Perth, Western Australia East Perth railway station is a Transperth railway station 19km from Perth Train Station, on the Midland Line in Perth, Western Australia The 1972 redistribution^[5] added part of West Leederville east of Kimberley Street, and extended the northern boundary to include southern Leederville and parts of North Perth and Mount Lawley. West Leederville is a suburb northwest of the Central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and is located within By 1982, it extended to Walcott Street, and the 1994 redistribution saw it take its present shape. ^[6]

History

The electoral district of Perth was created as one of the initial 30 single-member districts, and one of only six in the Perth-Fremantle area,^[7] and its first member, elected on 10 December 1890, was Dr Edward Scott, a doctor by training who had been elected as Mayor of Perth the previous year. Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Perth, a Local Government Area of Western Australia. He resigned in December 1891, and was replaced at the resulting by-election on 12 January 1892 by Thomas Molloy. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Thomas George Anstruther Molloy (4 October 1852—16 February 1938 was an Australian politician Molloy became embroiled in a controversy regarding provision of state aid to private schools, which he and fellow Catholic MLAs Timothy Quinlan and Marinus Canning supported. Timothy Francis Quinlan, CMG ( 18 February 1861 – 8 July 1927) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly The Catholic Vicar General, Father Anselm Bourke, established the Education Defence League with their assistance. Anselm Bourke OSB (10 September 1835 – 2 June 1924 was a Roman Catholic priest of Irish origins However, the issue became a major one in the 1894 election amongst the voting public, and all three MLAs lost their seats, Molloy losing to George Randell, a prominent Congregationalist who had led the cause against state aid. George Randell ( 5 October 1830 — 2 June 1915) was an Australian politician ^[8] Randell became the Opposition Leader to Premier John Forrest, but stepped down from that role a year later in July 1895, and did not contest the 1897 election, which was won by a supporter of Forrest. The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. Sir John Forrest GCMG (22 August 1847 – 2 September 1918 was an Australian explorer the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia ^[8]

In the 1901 election, after which the Oppositionists under George Leake were able to form a minority government, Frank Wilson, formerly the member for Canning, won the seat. George Leake CMG (Posthumous QC ( 3 December 1856 – 24 June 1902) was Premier of Western Australia from The Electoral district of Canning was a electorate in the state of Western Australia. After five months, the Leake government failed, and the Governor eventually invited Alf Morgans of Forrest's party to form a government and appoint a cabinet of six ministers. The Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of Australia 's Monarch Queen Elizabeth II. Alfred Edward Morgans (17 February 1850–10 August 1933 was Premier of Western Australia for just 32 days from 21 November to 23 December 1901 A cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of Government, typically representing the executive branch. A minister or a secretary is a Politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional Government. Morgans appointed Wilson minister of mines and commissioner of railways on 21 November 1901. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Until 1947, members of parliament who were appointed as ministers were required to resign their seat and recontest it at a ministerial by-election, which was normally a fairly non-eventful matter. ^[9] However, Leake and his allies contested the six by-elections with such organised campaigning that three of the six ministers, including Wilson, were defeated. ^[10]

In 1911, the seat was won for the first time for the Australian Labor Party by Walter Dwyer, a lawyer who helped to draft the Industrial Arbitration Act 1912 during the first Scaddan administration; however, he was defeated by James Connolly of the new Liberal Party in 1914. John Scaddan, CMG (4 August 1876 – 21 November 1934 popularly known as "Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October For the modern Liberal Party of Australia see Liberal Party of Australia The Commonwealth Liberal Party (CLP also known as The Fusion Connolly became a minister without portfolio in the new Wilson government but resigned in June 1917 when appointed to the role of Agent General for Western Australia. Frank Wilson is the name Frank E Wilson (1857&ndash1935 US Representative from New York Frank J An Agent-General was the representative in the United Kingdom of the government of a British colony in Canada, South Africa, Australia Robert Pilkington won the subsequent by-election on 21 July 1917 and election two months later, before leaving for England in 1921, and Harry Mann, a former detective who, amongst other things, oversaw gaming and racing, was elected in his place. Robert Rivington Pilkington ( 8 February 1870 – 30 June 1942) was an Irish Politician who sat in the Western Australian Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year

A controversy erupted in 1933 upon the establishment of a Lotteries Commission, to which Mann, along with John Scaddan and Legislative Council member Alec Clydesdale, were appointed. Lotterywest, formerly the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia, is an Australian lotteries corporation run by the State Government of John Scaddan, CMG (4 August 1876 – 21 November 1934 popularly known as "Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October The Legislative Council, or upper house is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Several profitable newspaper competitions, including that of The Sunday Times, were prohibited. The Sunday Times is a News Corporation owned Sunday Tabloid newspaper distributed throughout Western Australia. In response, a Citizens' Reform League was formed to defend the crosswords, and at the elections later that year, both Mann and Scaddan lost their seats^[11]—with Perth being won by former Labor Senator Ted Needham, who was to hold the seat until its abolition at the 1950 election, and North Perth for the following three years until his retirement. The Senate is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. ^[12] One sideline to Needham's campaigns was watchmaker and jeweller William Murray, who had placed a public notice in The West Australian on 28 October 1930 stating that Parliament "has become an out-of-date instrument for achieving the will of Anglo-Saxon peoples" and seeking names and addresses of anyone wishing to work towards overthrowing it—and then ran for election as a Nationalist in 1936 and 1943. The West Australian (often simply called The West) is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth Western Australia, and is owned by Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[13]

The seat was re-established at the 1962 election with different boundaries^[4]—the neighbouring seats of West Perth, East Perth and North Perth having all been abolished in the 1961 redistribution—and was won by Labor's Stanley Heal, the previous member for West Perth. He was defeated at the 1965 election by Peter Durack of the Liberal Party, who was in turn defeated by Terry Burke in 1968. Peter Drew Durack, QC ( 20 October 1926 - 13 July 2008) was an Australian politician representing the Liberal The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Terry Burke is a former member for the seat of Perth in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between 1968 and 1987 ^[14] Burke, the brother of Brian Burke who went on to serve as Premier from 1983 until 1988, went on to hold the seat for 19 years until 1987. Brian Thomas Burke (born in Perth, 25 February 1947 was Labor Premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1983 until his resignation on 25 February 1988

Burke resigned in 1987, and Labor's Dr Ian Alexander, a City of Perth councillor and town planner from the party's left faction, won the subsequent by-election on 9 May 1987. The City of Perth is a Local Government Area in and around the Central business district of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) He spent much of his parliamentary time on Aboriginal issues, sustainability and the environment and the Northern Suburbs Transit System project. Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. The Northern Suburbs Transit System is the name given to the project initiated and funded by the Government of Western Australia to provide high-speed Passenger On 4 March 1991, Ian Alexander resigned from the Labor party citing "frequent breaches of the party's basic principles and platforms", and sat as an independent until the 1993 election. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. ^[15] Dr Alexander did not stand for election in 1993, and Labor's Diana Warnock, a former radio talk-show host, won the seat with 50. Diana Muriel Warnock (born Diana Muriel Robinson 3 October 1940 in Western Australia) is a former Western Australian radio broadcaster women's rights 29% of the two-party-preferred vote against the Liberals' Hal G.P. Colebatch. Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch (born October 7 1945) also known as Hal G

The seat is now held by John Hyde, a former mayor of the Town of Vincent and a prominent gay activist. John Norman Hyde (born 13 October 1957 in Hamilton Victoria) is the sitting member in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for The Town of Vincent is a Local Government Area of Western Australia.

Members for Perth

Results

Main article: Results for the Electoral district of Perth

References

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)