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| | Western Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | 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 has been largely based on the extraction and export of mining and petroleum commodities, especially iron ore, alumina, natural gas, nickel and gold. |
 | | Whilst the sovereign of Western Australia is the Queen of Australia (Queen Elizabeth II), and executive power nominally vested in her State representative the Governor (currently John Sanderson until August 2005, to be replaced by Governor-elect Ken Michael), executive power is effectively administered by the premier and ministers. |
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