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Electoral District Of Capel
The electoral district of Capel was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. The district was named for the South West town of Capel, located between Bunbury and Busselton, which fell within its borders. The seat was abolished after only one term at the 2007 redistribution, taking effect from the 2008 election due to the one vote one value legislation. Most parts of the seat now fall within the new seat of Collie-Preston, which is regarded as a marginal Labor seat by Antony Green based on 2005 figures, with the Busselton portions becoming part of Vasse. Capel was created out of parts of Collie, Mitchell and Vasse, accounting for significant population growth in the Busselton- Dunsborough area which had seen Vasse contract to those areas. The seat was first contested in the 2005 election at which Liberal member Steve Thomas was successful. Geography Capel included some outer southern and southeastern suburbs of Bunbury, as well as most of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capel, Western Australia
Capel is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, located south of Perth and midway between Bunbury and Busselton. The town is located on the Capel River and is approximately above sea level. History The Capel area was originally inhabited by the Wardandi Noongar people. Colonists visited the region early in the history of colonial Western Australia. The Capel River was visited by Frederick Ludlow in 1834, but it was not given an English name until the Bussell family settled in the area soon afterwards. The name honours Capel Carter Brockman (1839–1924), daughter of John Bussell (1803–1875), herself named after a Miss Capel Carter, a cousin of the Bussells in England with whom Bussell family members corresponded. In the 1830s a number of settlers followed the Bussells into the area, and both James Stirling and John Hutt, (the first two Governors of Western Australia) took up land in the region. Plans to establish a townsite in the area were first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Western Australian Division)
The Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), branded as Liberal Western Australia, is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Founded in March 1949 as the Liberal and Country League of Western Australia (LCL), it simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1968. There was a previous Western Australian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged into the LCL in May 1949. The Liberal Party has held power in Western Australia for five separate periods in coalition with the National Party (previously the Country party), with the longest period between 1959 and 1971. The party was the sole opposition in the state from 2017 until the 2021 election, where the party lost eleven seats, thus losing opposition status to the National Party, marking the first time the party had failed to form either a coalition government or opposition on its own. Following the election, the Libe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carbunup River, Western Australia
Carbunup River is a small town in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of Western Australia. At the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 112. It is situated between Dunsborough, Western Australia, Dunsborough and Margaret River, Western Australia, Margaret River on the banks of the Carbunup River. The townsite was declared in 1926 as Carbunup but the name was changed in 1958 to Carbunup River to prevent confusion with the town of Carbarup near Mount Barker, Western Australia, Mount Barker. The town is named after the Carbunup River, the word Carbunup is Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal in origin and is thought to mean ''place of the cormorants'' or ''place of a kindly stram'' or ''place of the Stinkwood'' thicket''. The Discover Deadly reptile education centre is located in Carbunup River, at 10 Wildwood Road. References {{authority control Towns in Western Australia South West (Western Australia) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyanup, Western Australia
Boyanup is a town on the South Western Highway in the South West agricultural region, 195 km south of Perth and 18 km south-east of Bunbury, Western Australia. The town is located on the Preston River. Boyanup is a Noongar name, said to mean "a place of quartz" as "Boya" means "rock" or "stone". The first European in the area was Lieutenant Henry William Bunbury, who in December 1836 explored the route from Pinjarra to Busselton and thought it to be ideal for farming. In 1845 Dublin solicitor James Bessonnet took up Location 54 in the Wellington District, consisting of 385 acres through which the Preston River flowed and the new road from Bunbury to the Blackwood had just been completed. The land also had a natural spring, sometimes known as Bessonnet Springs, and a permanent billabong. Bessonnet named his farm ''Boyanup''. Bessonnet left the colony in 1849 aboard ''Despatch''. Location 54 proved to be "too far from anywhere to be workable and eventually the bush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balingup, Western Australia
Balingup is a town in the South West of Western Australia, south of the state capital, Perth, and southeast of the town of Donnybrook. The town takes its name from Balingup Pool, located on the Balingup Brook which flows through the town. The name was first recorded by a surveyor in 1850, and is said to be derived from the name of Noongar warrior, Balingan. Other research by Noongar academic and researcher Len Collard has shown the name derives from the language, meaning "one that is situated there at this place". The town is on the South Western Highway. It originally had a station on the Northcliffe Branch railway, opened in 1898, the same year the town was gazetted. Balingup was known in the twentieth century for fruit and vegetable growing, and more recently for beef cattle and organic produce. There are two long-established religious communities. Balingup hosts annual rural festivals, primarily the Small Farm Field Day (late April) and Medieval Carnivale (August). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withers, Western Australia
Withers is a beachside suburb in Bunbury, Western Australia Bunbury is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's third most populous city after Perth and Mandurah, with a population of approximately 75,000. Located a .... It is a primarily residential suburb with a small amount of retail activity. The suburb, which was named after state Member of Parliament and Bunbury mayor Frederick Withers, was developed by the State Housing Commission in the 1960s as the Withers Housing Estate. The layout of the suburb was influenced by the Radburn design philosophy. Building began in 1969 and was completed by 1975. The suburb has the lowest average personal income rate in Bunbury and a history of antisocial problems. It contains two primary schools: the government Maidens Park Primary School, named after the nearby Maidens Reserve, which opened in 1977 and was known as Withers Primary School unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usher, Western Australia
Usher is an outer southern suburb of Bunbury, a city in Western Australia, located within the City of Bunbury local government area. Located between the Indian Ocean coast and Bussell Highway, it is the southernmost continuous suburb in Bunbury's metropolitan area and was named after Patrick Usher, the mayor of Bunbury from 1972 to 1983. Demographics In the , Usher had a population of 2,168, down from 2,251 in 2006. According to 2016 Census figures, Usher residents had a median age of 36, and the median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Usher was $586. The population of Usher was predominantly Australian-born, with 76.1% as at the 2016 census, while 5.7% were born in England and 2.4% in New Zealand. The percentage of residents that identified as Indigenous Australians was 5.7%. The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2016 census were no religion, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Not Stated, and Christian. For those aged 15 and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davenport, Western Australia
Davenport is a suburb of the City of Bunbury in the South West region of Western Australia. It is predominantly commercial in the north-west with Bunbury Airport located within the suburb, while the remainder is rural. The City of Bunbury and the suburb of Davenport are located on the traditional land of the Wardandi (also spelled Wadandi) people of the Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ... nation. References {{Towns South West WA Suburbs of Bunbury, Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalyellup, Western Australia
Dalyellup, (pronounced Daly-ellup), is an outer northern suburb of the Shire of Capel local government area. The suburb was established in 1999 when the Department of Housing and Works entered into a joint venture with Satterley Property Group to develop Dalyellup Beach Estate, a master-planned community which was expected to yield 3,000 lots by its completion in 2012. In the original advertising campaign, Dalyellup was heavily promoted as "A village in the Forest by the Sea". Facilities Two large areas within the suburb were set aside as open space - about of pristine tuart forest, officially named the Usher-Dalyellup Regional Park in 2003, with an interpretative walkway leading to Ocean Drive in neighbouring Usher which was opened on 8 October 2007 by the Minister for the South West, and about of dunes and foreshore to the south. A small shopping centre provides for daily needs, but most residents used Bunbury's shopping facilities, until the new shopping centre opened in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Grove, Western Australia
College Grove is a suburb on the southern outskirts of Bunbury, Western Australia. Within the suburb there is the Bunbury Regional Hospital and St. John of God Bunbury Hospital on the South West Health Campus. The Edith Cowan University Bunbury Campus and South West Institute of Technology are also within College Grove. Manea Park is a large natural reserve that offers a 2.2 km bush walk from College Grove and it was included as part of the Preston River to Ocean Regional Park in 2011. The bush walk is popular during Spring with over 30 species of Orchidaceae, orchid identified within the Park. In the south-east of the suburb on the eastern side of Manea Park is the Bunbury Regional Prison. References Suburbs of Bunbury, Western Australia {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Donnybrook-Balingup
Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century. In some rural parts of Australia, a shire is a local government area; however, in Australia it is not synonymous with a "county", which is a lands administrative division. Etymology The word ''shire'' derives from the Old English , from the Proto-Germanic ( goh, sćira), denoting an 'official charge' a 'district under a governor', and a 'care'. In the UK, ''shire'' became synonymous with ''county'', an administrative term introduced to England through the Norman Conquest in the later part of the eleventh century. In contemporary British usage, the word ''counties'' also refers to shires, mainly in places such as Shire Hall. In regions with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
