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Coodanup, Western Australia
Coodanup is a south-eastern suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of Mandurah. History The name "Coodanup" is of unknown origin, although the WA gazetteer states that in 1836, Lieutenant Henry Bunbury noted "Colanup" was the local Noongar name for the mouth of the Serpentine River. Geography Coodanup is bounded by the Serpentine River to the east, Harvey Estuary The Peel-Harvey Estuarine System ( nys, Djilba) is a natural estuarine system that lies roughly parallel to the coast of Western Australia and south of the town of Mandurah. The strip of land between the Indian Ocean and the estuarine system ca ... to the south, Pinjarra Road to the north and Mandurah Bypass and Wanjeep Street to the west.2006 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth. References {{towns Peel WA Suburbs of Mandurah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Mandurah
Mandurah is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia. The district is based on the coastal satellite city of Mandurah to the south of Perth. The seat has switched between the major parties on a couple of occasions, but has recently become stronger for the Labor Party. Geography The district is a compact coastal electorate lying just to the south of the Metropolitan Region Scheme and north of the Peel Inlet. It includes the communities of Coodanup, Greenfields, Lakelands, Madora Bay, Mandurah, Meadow Springs, Parklands, San Remo, Silver Sands which lie to the west of the Mandurah Estuary. The district also extends across the estuary, to include parts of Barragup and Furnissdale. History First contested at the 1983 state election, Mandurah was won by Labor candidate John Read. Read lost the seat at the 1989 state election to Liberal candidate Roger Nicholls. Nicholls held the seat for three terms before his defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Canning
The Division of Canning is an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia. History The division was created in 1949 and is named for Alfred Canning, the Western Australian government surveyor who surveyed the Canning Stock Route. It was originally a country seat that traded hands between the two main centre-right parties, the Liberal and Country parties. Since 1980 it has been located in the southern suburbs of the two largest cities in Western Australia, Perth and Mandurah. For most of its last three decades, it has been a highly marginal seat due to the balanced proportion of the urban north and the rural south, changing hands between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party. Canning had a Liberal margin of 4.3 percent leading into the 2010 election, and was targeted by Labor, who stood high-profile candidate and former state Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan. The Liberals retained the seat; however, Canning was the only Western Australian seat to see a two-party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandurah
Mandurah () is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, situated approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's second most populous city, with a population of 107,641 as of the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Mandurah's central business district is located on the Mandurah Estuary, which is an outlet for the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary. The city's name is derived from the Noongar language, Noongar word ''mandjar'', meaning "meeting place" or "trading place". A townsite for Mandurah was laid out in 1831, two years after the establishment of the Swan River Colony, but attracted few residents, and until the Post–World War II economic expansion, post-war boom of the 1950s and 1960s it was little more than a small fishing village. In subsequent years, Mandurah's reputation for boating and fishing attracted many retirees, including to the canal developments in the city's south. Along with four other Local government areas of Western A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenfields, Western Australia
Greenfields is a suburb east of Mandurah, located east of Mandurah's central area. It includes several aged care residences and a large recreation oval and centre. The suburb is named after 'Greenfields Estate', the promotional name used by developers for the area in 1980. It has also been known as Goegrup and Riverside Gardens. See also * Frederick Irwin Anglican School Frederick Irwin Anglican School (originally "Frederick Irwin Anglican Community School") is a co-educational private school located in Meadow Springs in Mandurah, Western Australia, with students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The Frederick Irwin A ... References Suburbs of Mandurah {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barragup, Western Australia
Barragup is a locality near Mandurah, Western Australia, located north of Pinjarra Road and east of the Serpentine River within the Shire of Murray. Its postcode is 6209. At the 2016 census, Barragup had a population of 806. It is a largely rural locality with some low-level commercial development along Pinjarra Road and was only served by a deviation of the Transperth Transperth is the brand name of the public transport system serving the city and suburban areas of Perth, the state capital of Western Australia. It is managed by the Public Transport Authority (PTA), a state government organisation. Train op ... 598 bus route along Pinjarra Road between the river and Ronlyn Road until October 2012, when two additional bus services - 600 and 604 - were added to service the settlements further east along Pinjarra Road. References Towns in Western Australia Suburbs of Mandurah Shire of Murray {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Park, Western Australia
Dudley Park is a suburb of Mandurah Mandurah () is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, situated approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's second most populous city, with a population of 107,641 as of the 2021 Australian census, 2 ..., located immediately south of Mandurah's central area. References Suburbs of Mandurah {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnissdale, Western Australia
Furnissdale is a locality near Mandurah, Western Australia, to the south of Pinjarra Road and near the Serpentine River entrance into the Peel Inlet within the Shire of Murray. Its postcode is 6209. At the 2011 census, Furnissdale had a population of 1,027. Furnissdale (along with Barragup) is served by a deviation of the Transperth 598 bus route along Pinjarra Road between the river and Ronlyn Road. However, the northern boundary of the suburb (Pinjarra Road) is serviced by routes 600 and 604 between Mandurah station Mandurah Station is the terminus of the Mandurah railway line and a bus station on the Transperth network, serving the satellite city of Mandurah, Western Australia. History The bus station opened prior to the railway station, on 17 Septe ... and Pinjarra/ South Yunderup respectively. References {{authority control Towns in Western Australia Suburbs of Mandurah Shire of Murray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Estuary
The Peel-Harvey Estuarine System ( nys, Djilba) is a natural estuarine system that lies roughly parallel to the coast of Western Australia and south of the town of Mandurah. The strip of land between the Indian Ocean and the estuarine system carries the Old Coast Road and to the east is the Forrest Highway which is the main thoroughfare between Perth and the coastal towns of the south west corner of the state including Bunbury and Busselton. Description The estuarine system, which the Bindjareb Noongar people call , covers an area of approximately in total, with an average water depth of about . The Harvey River discharges into the extreme southern end of the elongated Harvey Estuary, which has an area of about . This in turn feeds into the south-western corner of the more northerly Peel Inlet which is roughly circular and occupies an area of about . The Serpentine River and Murray Rivers discharge into the eastern edges of Peel Inlet. A long channel, the Mandurah Estu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mandurah Suburbs
Information about local government areas and locality boundaries has been sourced from the 2006 Perth StreetSmart Street Directory published by West Australian Newspapers Ltd on behalf of the Department of Land Information, Western Australia. Suburbs * Bouvard * Clifton * Coodanup * Dawesville * Dudley Park * Erskine * Falcon * Greenfields * Halls Head * Herron * Lakelands * Madora Bay * Mandurah * Meadow Springs * Parklands * San Remo * Silver Sands * Wannanup Nearby localities * Golden Bay * Herron * Karnup * Lake Clifton * Nambeelup * North Yunderup * Ravenswood * Singleton * South Yunderup Former suburbs * East Mandurah * Florida * Goegrup * Mandurah Beach * Melros * Park Ridge * Riverside Gardens {{Suburb lists in Australia Mandurah Mandurah () is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, situated approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's second most populous city, with a population of 107,64 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Areas Of Western Australia
There are 137 local government areas of Western Australia (LGAs), which are areas, towns and districts in Western Australia that manage their own affairs to the extent permitted by the ''Local Government Act 1995''. The ''Local Government Act 1995'' also makes provision for regional local governments (referred to as "regional councils", established by two or more local governments for a particular purpose. There are three classifications of local government in Western Australia: * City predominantly urban, some larger regional centres * Town predominantly inner urban, plus Port Hedland * Shire predominantly rural or outer suburban areas The Shire of Christmas Island and the Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands are Federal external territories and covered by the ''Indian Ocean Territories Administration of Laws Act'', which allows the Western Australian ''Local Government Act'' to apply "on-island" as though it were a Commonwealth act. Nonetheless, Christmas Island and the Cocos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Mandurah
The City of Mandurah is a local government area of Western Australia, covering both Mandurah proper and an additional area reaching down as far south as Lake Clifton. The city has a total area of approximately . The city is located in the Peel region, just beyond the southern boundary of metropolitan Perth, and lies about south of the Perth central business district. It is bordered by the City of Rockingham to the north, the Shire of Murray to the east (the border being for the most part the Harvey Estuary and Serpentine River), and Shire of Waroona to the south. History The area that is now Mandurah was part of the Murray Road District until 1949. The City of Mandurah originated as the Mandurah Road District, established on 10 June 1949. The road board held its first meeting on 1 September 1949. The board was suspended on 12 July 1956 by an Order in Council and the district was placed under the administration of Commissioner Richard Rushton, who ultimately served in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry William St Pierre Bunbury
Colonel Henry William St Pierre Bunbury CB (2 September 1812 – 18 September 1875) was a British Army officer who served for periods in Australia, South Africa, and India. Early life Bunbury was the son of Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet, who served as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. His mother, Louisa Amelia, was the daughter of Henry Edward Fox and the granddaughter of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland. Bunbury's brothers, Sir Charles and Sir Edward, had prominent careers of their own. At the age of 18, Bunbury was commissioned as an ensign in the 43rd Regiment of Foot. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1833 and transferred to the 21st Regiment of Foot. Bunbury was then sent out to Australia, stationed in New South Wales from 1834 to 1835, Van Diemen's Land from 1835 to 1836, and Western Australia from 1836 to 1837. In New South Wales, he served as aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Bourke, the Governor of New South Wales. Colony of Western Australia Bunbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
