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	Western Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western Australia is Australia's largest state in area, covering the western third of the mainland, and is bordered by South Australia and the Northern Territory.
		The Pincushion Hakea is a native of Western Australia
		The major universities in Western Australia are the University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, Murdoch University and the University of Notre Dame.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Australia (1767 words)

	Western Australia - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Western Australia is Australia's largest state, covering the westernmost third of the mainland, bordering South Australia and the Northern Territory.
		Western Australia took part in Australian federation in 1901, and is subject to all laws and regulations made by the Australian Parliament and Australian Government in Canberra.
		Australian citizens residing in Western Australia elect members to the two houses of the parliament: the Legislative Assembly, often referred to as the lower house, and the Legislative Council, or the upper House.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /western_australia.htm (876 words)

	Premier of Western Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eric Ripper is currently Acting Premier until a successor is elected by the parliamentary caucus of the Australian Labor Party.
		The Constitution of Western Australia does not explicitly provide for a premier, and the office was not formally listed as one of the executive offices until the appointment of Ross McLarty in 1947.
		Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, Western Australia became an Australian State, and the responsibilities of the office of premier were diminished.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Premier_of_Western_Australia (547 words)

	The People of Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Birthplaces - Australia : 2001 and 1996 Census
		Ancestry by Birthplace of Parent(s) - Australia : 2001 Census
		Birthplaces - Western Australia : 2001 and 1996 Census
	www.omi.wa.gov.au /OMI_WAPeople.asp (776 words)

	Wikinfo \| Western Australia
		AU-WA Western Australia is Australia's largest state, covering the westernmost third of the mainland, bordering South Australia and the Northern Territory.
		Western Australia's economy is supported primarily by various mining industries, as well as some agriculture (notably large-scale beef farming) and forestry in the south-west.
		The people of Western Australia are represented in a State Parliament located in the State capital city, Perth.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Western_Australia (344 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		The premier will also discuss existing relations between India and Western Australia as well as developing future trade partnerships in the field of mining, agri-business, bio-technology, education and training, it was stated.
		Western Australia is the largest state of Australia and contributes to over 30 per cent of Australia's export earnings.
		India is Western Australia's fourth biggest trading partner which is mainly driven by the export of gold and mineral resources, the statement noted.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/002200509300314.htm (194 words)

	Stayfinder.com - Australia - Western Australia
		Western Australia, the largest state in the world, covers one-third of the Australian continent.
		Western Australia is made up of eleven regions - each one offering a distinct range of travel experiences and attractions.
		Western Australia's capital, renowned for its warm, sunny climate, pristine coastline and relaxed lifestyle.
	www.stayfinder.com /travelguide/australia/destinations/western_australia (377 words)

	Western Australia article - Western Australia detail detail Capital Perth Governor Lieutenant General John - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Although Western Australia has been occupied by Aboriginal people for many thousands of years, the present State has its origins in the British settlement known as the Swan River Colony, founded at Perth in 1829.
		Western Australia has only one daily newspaper, the tabloid The West Australian, and one Sunday tabloid newspaper, The Sunday Times.
		Western Australia article - Western Australia definition - what means Western Australia
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Western_Australia (698 words)

	GALTA Western Australia
		Bordered largely by desert to the east, Western Australia is bound by 12,500 kilometres (7,813 miles) of the world's most pristine coastline to the west.
		Western Australia is adored for its brilliant blue skies, warm sunny climate and white sandy beaches.
		In the mid West you'll find Western Australia's premier wildflower region, while the goldfields to the east of Perth are steeped in the history of WA gold mining evidenced by the grand Australian architecture and a rich heritage of early settlement.
	www.galta.com.au /wa.asp (293 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Boat people stitch up lips
		About 12 boat people in Australia have sewn the edges of their lips together in protest at the slow processing of their applications for refugee status.
		Australia has been attempting to stem the numbers of illegal immigrants entering the country.
		Boat people granted refugee status in Australia are no longer eligible for permanent residency as part of temporary protection visas, and instead have to apply for three-year visas.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/633793.stm (448 words)

	Study in Perth - Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Education institutions in Western Australia teach fully accredited, quality assured courses that have been assessed and approved under Australian and Western Australian Government legislation.
		Western Australia's knowledge economy highlights the Government's commitment to innovation, technology and research.
		On their behalf I am delighted to invite you to Western Australia to undertake your studies and pursue career opportunities in an exciting and friendly learning environment.
	www.doir.wa.gov.au /studyinperth/welcomeToWA.asp (377 words)

	Alcoa in Australia: News: News From Australia: Alcoa celebrates the first 40 years in Western Australia
		Geoff Gallop and former Premier of Western Australia Sir Charles Court and Lady Court.
		The Deputy Premier Eric Ripper and Ministers Clive Brown, John Koebelke and Sheila McHale also attended the event, as did the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Clive Brown and State Parliamentary members Kate Doust, Mark McGowan, Aurthur Marshall and Tony Dean.
		The vision for growth in Australia is one which is strongly supported by Alcoa’s current Managing Director, Mr Wayne Osborn who said that the founders of Australian operations guide Alcoa’s aspirations for the future, with a vision to invest the resources and effort required to continue at the forefront of aluminium technology and production worldwide.
	www.alcoa.com /australia/en/news/releases/20031026_40th_anniversary.asp (412 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Those who have visited Western Australia will know that our multicultural, multi-faith community is one of the most peaceful in the world, and that it fully respects the dignity, cultures and religions of all people who live here.
		Western Australia has recently finished celebrating Harmony Week, which is held every year to showcase the rich cultural diversity of our state.
		As Premier of Western Australia, I and my government are committed to promoting harmony among people of different cultural backgrounds in a safe and peaceful living environment.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20040527.F05 (269 words)

	John Forrest
		Forrest and his men spent 19 weeks in the interior of Western Australia and they travelled over 3 200 kilometres of previously unexplored country.
		However, they were the first to cross Australia from west to the east, having travelled overland from Perth to Adelaide, the opposite direction taken by Eyre some years earlier.
		To Central Australia: Little was known about the centre of Australia, even though much of the rest of Australia had been explored.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/forrest/john.htm (947 words)

	Western Australia: Gallop's drug 'compromise' - 15 December 2001
		The Premier of Western Australia, Dr Geoff Gallop, has tabled in State Parliament his Government’s response to the recommendations of the Community Drug Summit held in Perth in August.
		It is ironic that the Western Australian Premier made his announcement the same week that South Australia moved to reduce the number of cannabis plants permitted (subject only to fines) in that State to one, with a ban on the more potent indoor hydroponic plants.
		In a further irony, the Western Australian Parliament was also debating that same week new legislation directed at breaking the power of outlaw motorcycle gangs in Western Australia.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2001dec15_drug.html (983 words)

	THE HON DR GEOFF I GALLOP BEc MA MPhil DPhil MLA - Welcome
		Premier Geoff Gallop MLA has announced his intention to resign as Premier of Western Australia and Member for Victoria Park in the State Parliament.
		The latest ABS employment figures show Western Australia is maintaining its position as the powerhouse economy in Australia.
		Western Australia's safest young drivers will be rewarded with a free driver's licence for a year under the Gallop Government's new Safe Driver Reward Scheme.
	www.premier.wa.gov.au (223 words)

	Sir John Forrest -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		As Western Australia's first premier (1890–1901), he sponsored public works construction and negotiated the state's entry into the Australian Commonwealth in 1901.
		Western Australia ceased to receive convicts in 1868; it gained a partly elected legislature in 1870 and responsible government in 1890.
		The premier throughout the 1890s was Sir John Forrest, who was as adept at politics as he had been at exploration.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9034912 (1001 words)

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		The then Premier of Western Australia, Sir John Forrest, asked the British Government to establish a branch of the Royal Mint in Perth to refine the gold being produced in the Eastern goldfields and to mint it into British gold coins to be used as currency in the colony.
		AGR Matthey is a partnership between the Western Australian Mint (40%), Australian Gold Alliance Pty Ltd (40%) and Johnson Matthey (Aust) Ltd (20%), and is managed by AGR Management Services Pty Ltd. All gold refining is conducted at the Newburn refinery, Western Australia, and all precious metal fabrication is conducted at Thomastown, Victoria.
		Before Australia's Federation, the silver and bronze coins in circulation were also British, but shortly after the emergence of Australia as a Commonwealth on 1 January 1901, plans were made for a new coinage, and the Australian Coinage Act was proclaimed in 1909.
	www.perthmint.com.au /gc/visit/visit_layout.asp?url=4 (1670 words)

	About the SUPREME COURT of Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		He was admitted to practice in Western Australian in 1966 and became a partner in the firm of Paterson & Dowding in 1968 and was the senior partner of the firm from 1977 until 1980.
		He was admitted to practice in Western Australia in February 1976, in Queensland as a solicitor in 1980 and as a barrister in Queensland in 1993.
		Ms Crisford was born on 16 February 1955 and was educated at St Mary's Church of England Girls' School and the Law School at the University of Western Australia where she obtained her degrees of Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws and was admitted to practice in Western Australia in 1978.
	www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au /media/media38.htm (2188 words)

	Sustainability in Western Australia - The Premier of Western Australia's statements on sustainability
		The Sustainability Strategy was foreshadowed by the Premier in his opening speech at the 2001 Australia Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation Conference.
		The Premier announced the Government's intention to develop the Strategy to Parliamant on 5 November 2001 and to the public on 13 November 2001.
		From October - December 2002, the public were invited to attend a series of free public workshops in Perth and in rural regions of Western Australia to gain further input for the final version of the State Sustainability Strategy.
	www.sustainability.dpc.wa.gov.au /docs/consultation.htm (1072 words)

	Encyclopedia: Premier of Western Australia
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		The office of Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful political office in the Commonwealth of Australia.
		The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Premier-of-Western-Australia (388 words)

	Western Australia apologises to abused wards-of-state - Wikinews
		April 7, 2005 The state Premier of Western Australia (WA), Dr Geoff Gallop, gave an apology to children physically and sexually abused in institutional care within the state between the 1920s and 1970s.
		ABC News Australia "WA apologises to children abused in care".
		Parliament of Australia: Senate Community Affairs Committee "Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children".
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Western_Australia_apologises_to_abused_wards-of-state (492 words)

	American Australian Association \| Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		New York, NY - December 4th, 2003 - The American Australian Association will host Premier Geoff Gallop of Western Australia, at a private dinner at the Harvard Club in New York City tonight; this continues the Association's strong speakers program, a hallmark of the Association's long history and programs.
		Australia has just signed a major agreement with China for the provision of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to that country.
		There are great opportunities for LNG markets in North America and to that end, the Premier of Western Australia; The Hon Dr Geoff Gallop is heading a trade delegation which is visiting North America.
	www.americanaustralian.org /Aboutus/printdisplay.php?Id=26 (263 words)

	Australian Journal of Anthropology, The: Home and away: the grounding of new football teams in Perth, Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1997, a former Premier of Western Australia led a protest march through the streets of Fremantle (the electorate for which she was then, and is currently, the federal member).
		In 1999, the then Premier of Western Australia walked out onto the Western Australian Cricket Association ground in Perth (the 'WACA') in front of a capacity crowd to be greeted by a chorus of 'You can stick your bell tower up your arse' from a large number of those present.
		In the late nineteenth century, when several countries began to develop national sporting competitions, Australia was still a collection of widely separated colonies, all of which were centred upon their dominant capital cities.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2472/is_3_13/ai_95148962 (1205 words)

	Premier's Physical Activity Taskforce Western Australia: Local Government - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In June 2001 the Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop, launched the Physical Activity Taskforce to oversee the development and implementation of a whole of community physical activity strategy for Western Australia.
		Western Australia is not immune to the low level of physical activity.
		The establishment of the Taskforce followed research undertaken by the Departments of Sport and Recreation and Health, in collaboration with The University of Western Australia.
	www.patf.dpc.wa.gov.au (534 words)

	Energy in Western Australia
		Sir Charles Court, AK KCMG OBE, and former Premier of Western Australia, spoke of the history of energy in Western Australia and his views for the future.
		Throughout my 29 years in the Western Australian Parliament (from 1953 to 1982) I was concerned at the lack of understanding in parliament, industry, commerce and the wider community, of the full significance of the total concept of energy, both in the short- and long-term.
		Australia would look mighty silly in later years if we found we had no energy with which to process our natural resources, nor natural resources to be processed, because we had been too short-sighted with our export policies and programs!
	www.aie.org.au /pubs/court.htm (2781 words)

	175th Anniversary of Western Australia
		Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region
		Permaculture in Western Australia: Greenacre Village and Rosneath Farm
		Department of the Premier and Cabinet Western Australia 31 December 2004
	www.175anniversary.wa.gov.au /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.links (112 words)

	Pinjarra - Western Australia -
		In 1830 Thomas Peel, an early Western Australian entrepreneur, established a settlement at the mouth of the Murray and by 1834 it was known that the area around Pinjarra was heavily grassed and the soils were rich loams.
		It was in this kind of hostile environment that Captain James Stirling, Governor of the Colony of Western Australia, responded to continuing requests for military protection from a small group of settlers on the Murray River.
		A few kilometres to the north of Pinjarra on the South Western Highway is the fascinating settlement of Fairbridge.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Western-Australia/Pinjarra/2005/02/17/1108500208647.html (1576 words)

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