Perth's metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1. 55 million in 2007 ( 75 % of the state ).

Every April the paper is distributed to the public of Perth's metropolitan area by students dressed in costume in exchange for a donation, often a " gold coin " donation.

Armadale is a suburb within the City of Armadale, located on the south-eastern edge of Perth's metropolitan area.

It covers an area of approximately 118 square kilometres in metropolitan Perth, and lies about 38 km south of Perth's central business district, via the Kwinana Freeway.

It is located in Perth's north-eastern metropolitan region and the Swan Valley, centred approximately 20 km north-east of the Perth Central business district ( CBD ).

It is centred approximately north of Perth's central business district and forms part of the northern boundary of the Perth metropolitan area.

The suburb is connected to the rest of Perth's metropolitan area by two routes-Leach Highway, which links to Tonkin Highway, Bayswater / Morley, Forrestfield and the Perth Airport ; and Abernethy Road which links to Great Eastern Highway in the direction of Perth CBD.

Two highways spur off Great Eastern Highway at various stages ; at Perth's eastern metropolitan boundary the Great Southern Highway begins, which links Perth to such towns as York, Brookton, Narrogin, and Katanning, and 40 km prior to arrival at Kalgoorlie the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway begins, which serves, among others Norseman, Esperance, and the east of Australia.

Joondalup is a regional metropolitan city within Perth, Western Australia, approximately north of Perth's central business district ( CBD ).

The name refers to the Beeliar people, a tribe of Indigenous Australians who had land usage rights over the southern half of Perth's metropolitan area.

Residents in the region were at this time on the fringe of Perth's suburban area, relying on partly built main roads, distant shopping centres and overstretched local facilities for several years after the suburb's construction.

The Tramways Act 1885 allowed for construction of Perth's first tramway network, with trams in the area servicing Vincent Street, Beaufort Street and Walcott Street.

Belmont contains Perth's domestic and international airports which account for 33. 7 % of the City of Belmont's land area.

Cloverdale contains no industrial areas, although Perth Airport is immediately to the east beyond Tonkin Highway, and on the other side of Leach Highway, is the Kewdale industrial area which is one of Perth's largest, which accounts for " Technicians and Trade Workers " being the biggest proportion of Cloverdale's workers in the 2006 ABS Census ( 18. 2 %) and workers, labourers and machinery operators and drivers also being high on the list.

Morley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, situated approximately northeast of Perth's central business district within the City of Bayswater local government area.

It is located 36 kilometres ( 22 mi ) north of Perth's central business district, via Marmion Avenue, and forms part of the City of Wanneroo local government area.

The Spearwood area soon became one of Perth's major market gardening areas.

The area steadily became the centre of much of Perth's heavy industry and comprised the coal-fired power station, railway marshalling yards, abattoir as well as numerous skin drying sheds.

The area has a historical connection to the Greek and Italian communities, with Perth's first Orthodox Church located on Parker Street.

The coastal suburbs ' placement is advantageous due to proximity to Perth's oceanside location and clean beaches.

Legal Two-up arrived with its introduction as a " table " game at the new casino in Hobart in 1973, but is now only offered in Perth's Burswood Entertainment Complex.

It is situated south of Perth's central business district ( CBD ).

Fremantle — along with the inner suburbs of Northbridge and Leederville — is one of Perth's major nightlife hubs.

Curtin is commemorated by the Canberra suburb of Curtin, Curtin University in Perth, John Curtin College of the Arts in Fremantle, the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra, the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin Avenue in Perth's western suburbs, and the John Curtin Hotel on Lygon St, Carlton, Melbourne.

Mandurah is also linked to Perth's water supply.

Now, as a satellite city in Perth's southwest, together with Mandurah, it is among Australia's fastest-growing residential districts.

Matilda Roe's fondness for gardening is claimed to be the reason for the kink between St Georges Terrace and Adelaide Terrace, the main streets through Perth's central business district.

The City of Stirling is a Local Government Area in the northern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about north of Perth's central business district.

Carine is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located north of Perth's central business district ( CBD ) between Marmion Avenue and Mitchell Freeway.

Dianella is home to all of Perth's commercial television studios.

Dianella is also part of Perth's small Greek community, the second biggest hub for the Greek Orthodox Community in Perth, the biggest being in the centre of Northbridge.

Its Local Government Area is the City of Stirling, and is located about 6 kilometres from Perth's central business district along the Mitchell Freeway.

Gwelup is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located 12 km north of Perth's central business district ( CBD ) along the Mitchell Freeway.

Gwelup's northern and southern sections respectively are served by Transperth 424 and 427 bus routes from Stirling railway station, which is a nine-minute commute to Perth's central business district.

Innaloo is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and it is located 9 km from Perth's central business district.

Innaloo is a more established residential suburb that is also home to the Westfield Innaloo and Westfield Innaloo Megacentre shopping centres, and is adjacent to Perth's largest cinema complex, the 18-cinema Greater Union Megaplex Innaloo.

It highlights Perth's wealth of post-European settlement writings which provide an insight into Aboriginal life, including laws and customs, around the time of settlement in 1829 and also into the beginning of the last century.

Starting off as a vast seat covering most of Perth's northwestern hinterland, it shrank in size at various redistributions until, by the time of its abolishment, it was an inner suburban seat able to be absorbed into Wembley and Mount Hawthorn.

Cannington is on Albany Highway, a primary route into Perth's CBD, and lies to the southeast of Leach Highway and to the northwest of Roe Highway.

After acting as twelfth man in the first Test, he was selected to bat at number seven for the second match, the first Test played at Perth's WACA ground.

* 20 May – Perth's third commercial television station NEW-10 opens, giving Perth the same number of stations as the eastern states.