Margaret River is located inland from the Indian Ocean at a point about halfway between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia's South West region.

Western Australia's one-vote-one-value reforms will cut the number of rural seats in the state assembly to reflect the rural population level: this, coupled with the Liberals ' strength in country areas has put the Nationals under significant pressure.

On 4 June 1829, newly arriving British colonists had their first view of the mainland, and Western Australia's Foundation Day has since been recognised by a public holiday on the first Monday in June each year.

Summer is not completely devoid of rain with sporadic rainfall in the form of short-lived thunderstorms, weak cold fronts and on very rare occasions decaying tropical cyclones from Western Australia's north-west which can bring significant falls.

In September 2009 Western Australia's dams reached 50 % overall capacity for the first time since 2000.

* Watch historical footage of Perth and Western Australia from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's collection.

Western Australia's constitution contains nothing to preclude the premier being a member of the upper house, the Western Australian Legislative Council.

Western Australia is Australia's largest state and the second-largest subnational entity in the world.

Today Western Australia's economy mainly relies on mining, agriculture, and tourism, with the state supplying 46 % of Australia's exports.

O ' Connor, Western Australia's first engineer-in-chief, designed and oversaw the construction of the pipeline.

Western Australia's capital and largest city, Perth, from Kings Park, Western Australia | Kings Park.

Western Australia did not receive significant flows of migrants from Britain, Ireland or elsewhere in the British Empire until the early 20th century when local projects — such as the Group Settlement Scheme of the 1920s which encouraged farmers to settle the southwest — increased awareness of Australia's western third as a destination for colonists.

Led by migrants from the British Isles, Western Australia's population developed at a faster rate during the twentieth century than it had previously.

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

Western Australia's resource commodity mix, 2007.

Western Australia's economy is largely driven by extraction and processing of a diverse range of mineral and petroleum commodities.

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Royal Mint branches were established in Sydney, New South Wales, Melbourne, Victoria, and Perth, Western Australia for the purpose of minting gold sovereigns from Australia's rich gold deposits.

Cooler climate regions such as Western Australia's Margaret River produce Shiraz with marginally less alcohol content and often in a more traditional French style.

Some notable examples are Times Beach, Missouri, whose residents were exposed to a high level of dioxins, and Wittenoom, Western Australia, which was once Australia's largest source of blue asbestos, but was shut down in 1966 due to health concerns.

OzOpera ( Opera Australia's education, access and development arm ) presented the La bohème production in Victoria, Northern Territory and Western Australia, attended by 13, 350 people, while OzOpera's Schools Company performed to over 63, 500 primary age children in more than 360 performances in urban and regional New South Wales and Victoria.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ).

Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia

An agreement with Western Union required that U. S. company to route messages in a specified ratio of 3: 1, with three telegraphic messages transmitted to Canadian National for every message transmitted to Canadian Pacific.

Government forces clashed violently with rebel forces, including the Movement for Democracy and Development, MDD, National Revival Committee for Peace and Democracy ( CSNPD ), Chadian National Front ( FNT ) and the Western Armed Forces ( FAO ), near Lake Chad and in southern regions of the country.

In South Australia and Western Australia the two parties compete separately, while in the Northern Territory and Queensland the two parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party, in 1978, and the Liberal National Party, in 2008, respectively.

Yellow Irises, 1914, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Image: Monet Water Lilies 1916. jpg | Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

When the Western renamed itself the American League for 1900, it was still a minor league, but next year it broke with the National Agreement and declared itself major, openly competing with the National League for players, and for fans in three contested cities.

The atoll is approximately east of the coast of Africa ( at Tanzania ), south-southeast of the southern tip of India ( at Kanyakumari ) and west-northwest of the west coast of Australia ( at Cape Range National Park, Western Australia ).

They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.

In fact, the three Western commandants regularly protested the presence of the East German National People's Army ( NVA ) in East Berlin, particularly on the occasion of military parades.

After the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China ended, Munch was the first Western artist to have his pictures exhibited at the National Gallery in Beijing.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Goebbels ' letter informed Chuikov of Hitler's death and requested a ceasefire, hinting that the establishment of a National Socialist government hostile to Western plutocracy would be beneficial to the Soviet Union, as the betrayal of Himmler and Göring indicated that otherwise anti-Soviet National Socialist elements might align themselves with the West.

Alan Turing searched for them on the Manchester Mark 1 in 1949, but the first successful identification of a Mersenne prime, M < sub > 521 </ sub >, by this means was achieved at 10: 00 P. M. on January 30, 1952 using the U. S. National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer ( SWAC ) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the direction of Lehmer, with a computer search program written and run by Prof. R. M.

They currently participate in the North Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ); prior to that the Vikings were in the NFC Central Division, and before that they were in the NFL's Western Conference Central Division.

However, the party split in two over the decision in late 1978, with a new National Party forming and becoming independent, holding three seats in the Western Australian lower house, while the National Country Party remained in coalition and also held three seats.

This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

The Nationalist Party ( Partit Nazzjonalista ) government elected in May 1987 continued a policy of neutrality and non-alignment, but in a Western context.

Fraser contested the seat of Wannon, in Victoria's Western District, in 1954 for the Liberal Party, losing to Labor incumbent Donald McLeod by 17 votes.

The Country Party was formally founded in 1913 in Western Australia, and nationally in 1920 from a number of state-based parties such as the Victorian Farmers Union ( VFU ) and the Farmers and Settlers Party of New South Wales.

Party politics began in Western Australia with the rise of the Labor party in 1901.

After the war, San Marino became the first country in Western Europe to be ruled by a communist party ( the San Marinese Communist Party, in coalition with the San Marinese Socialist Party ) through democratic elections.

The Liberal Party of Canada is the only genuine national political party that remains while the regionally based parties such as the Quebec-based Bloc Québécois and the almost entirely Western Canada-based Reform Party of Canada rise from political insignificance to being major political parties.

In his first speech to the Conservative Party conference as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence on 14 October 1965, Powell outlined a fresh defence policy, jettisoning what he saw as outdated global military commitments left over from Britain's imperial past and stressing that Britain was a European power and therefore an alliance with Western European states from possible attack from the East was central to Britain's safety.

With the rise of the Republican Party, which appealled to both Northeast and Western states, the industrializing North and agrarian Midwest became committed to the economic ethos of free-labor industrial capitalism.

Since the advent of the internet, various people in both China and abroad have begun to argue online that the Cultural Revolution had many beneficial qualities for China that have been denied by both the post-Mao Chinese Communist Party and the Western media.

In modern times, following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, a swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920.

Only one Western classic communist party sided with CPC, the Communist Party of New Zealand.

The Canadian Alliance's origins were in the Reform Party of Canada, which was founded in 1987 as a populist party supporting Western Canadian interests.

Initially, the Reform Party was motivated by the need for democratic reforms and by profound Western Canadian discontent with the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.

On June 27, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, Debs and other influential union leaders including Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, held what Haywood called the " Continental Congress of the working class ".