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 | Perth Electorate Profile | |
| | x x John Carey has lived in Perth for more than a decade and loves the great lifestyle that the city offers. As a former Mayor of Vincent, which includes parts of West Perth, East Perth and Perth, he has been working hard to make these precincts more vibrant and safer for residents. John founded the Beaufort Street Network, a local business and resident organisation aimed at revitalizing the precinct. The Network has driven the transformation of the Beaufort Street precinct, through projects which have helped built a sense of a real community. John also co-founded the Beaufort Street Festival, credited with putting the café and retail on the tourist map. John is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier; Minister for Public Sector Management; State Development, Jobs and Trade; Federal-State Relations; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport; Planning, and Lands Contact Details and Speeches Biography Facebook ; Twitter | | Perth Electorate Map xx  (Click map for larger image) | |
| | Statistical Profile of the Perth Electorate | | |
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| | About the Perth Electorate | | |
| Number of Electors: 26,122 (9 March 2015) Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information. Nomenclature: The story of the naming of Perth begins with the instructions given to Captain Stirling, Lieutenant Governor designate of the proposed colony of Western Australia, regarding the foundation of the colony. Stirling received a letter from the Secretary for the Colonies, Sir George Murray, which read: "Amongst your earliest duties will be that of determining the most convenient site for a Town to be erected as the future seat of Government. You will be called upon to weigh maturely the advantages which may arise from placing it on so secure a situation as may be afforded on various points of the Swan River, against those which may follow from establishing it on so fine a port for the reception of shipping as Cockburn Sound is represented to be...". Stirling was therefore given the choice of establishing the chief town on Cockburn Sound, or "on various points on the Swan River". It has been established that Murray actually gave Stirling more explicit instructions, and advised him that failing the establishment of the town at Cockburn Sound, he was to fix the site for it at the confluence of the two rivers, the Swan and the Canning, or in other words, at Point Heathcote. Stirling had good reasons to disobey Murray, but briefly they were that it was that the Perth site was "decidely preferable in building materials, streams of water, and facility of communication". Stirling did however gladly comply with Sir George Murray's command that the new town be called Perth. Murray's reasons for choosing the name, Perth, were purely sentimental and quite understandable, for he was both a Perthshire man and represented his birthplace in the House of Commons. The choice suited Stirling, himself a Scotsman, although it is recorded that at least one early settler, William Leake complained to the Home Office about the name. August 12, 1829 marked the day of the founding of the town, when Mrs Helen Dance cut down a tree. August 12 was also the birthday of King George IV. Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places. Suburbs: Coolbinia*, East Perth*, Highgate, Leederville, Mt Hawthorn, Mt Lawley*, North Perth, Northbridge, Perth and West Perth. * = Suburb/Town split between more than one District. Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information. Local Governments within District City of Perth (part) ; Statistical Profile of City of Perth Town of Vincent (part) ; Statistical Profile of City of Vincent | | Local Newspapers: Perth Voice Books about Perth: Jenny Gregory: City of light - a history of Perth since the 1950s (403p. City of Perth, 2003) George Seddon: A city and its setting - images of Perth, Western Australia (304p. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1986) C T Stannage: The people of Perth - a social history of Western Australia's capital city (364p. Perth City Council, 1979) Perth Western Australia, a wealth of resources (222p. Focus Books, 1993) Alexandra Hasluck: Victorian and Edwardian Perth from old photographs (118p. John Ferguson, 1977) Ian Warne: Perth heritage in watercolour (24p. I Warne, 1994) Stan Gervas: Sunday mornings in Perth (170p. Gervas Books, 2003) Simon Nevill: Perth and Fremantle, past and present (191p. Simon Nevill, 2007) Edmund Robless: The streets of Perth, past and present (99p. Loose Booty Productions, 2008) Dino Di Rado: Perth's history, the 1900s - the era Perth changes (Part 1 - historic buildings and early transport) (29p. 2009) Julie Davidson: Early businesses of Vincent, a local history (242p. Town of Vincent, 2010) Our Town: early photographs from the Town of Vincent local history collection (86p. Town of Vincent Library, 2007) John Yiannakis: Northbridge history studies day papers (275p. Network Books, 2009) Jo Darbyshire: The Coolbaroo Club 1947 - 1960 Schools in the Perth Electorate: Government: Highgate Primary School Kyilla Primary School Mount Hawthorn Primary School North Perth Primary School Others: Aranmore Catholic College Aranmore Catholic Primary School Mercedes College Sacred Heart Primary School St George's Anglican Grammar School Trinity College | |
| | 2017 Election Result | | |
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Successive Members for the Perth District |
 Edward Scott |
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