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| est = 1856Council House, Perth>Council House, PerthBasil Zempilas (Western Australian Liberal Party>Liberal)Lord Mayor of Perth>Lord Mayor| region = Central Perth| logo = Coat of arms of the City of Perth.svg| logo_upright = 1| url =weblinkElectoral district of Nedlands>NedlandsElectoral district of Perth>PerthDivision of Curtin>CurtinDivision of Perth>PerthTown of Cambridge>CambridgeCity of Vincent>VincentCity of Vincent>VincentCity of Belmont>BelmontCity of Subiaco>SubiacoCity of Nedlands>NedlandsCity of South Perth>South PerthTown of Victoria Park>Victoria Park}}The City of Perth is a local government area and body, within the Perth metropolitan area, which is the capital of Western Australia. The local government is commonly known as Perth City Council. The City covers the Perth city centre and surrounding suburbs. The City covers an area of {{convert|20.01|km2|sqmi|0}} and had an estimated population of 21,092 as at 30 June 2015. On 1 July 2016 the City expanded, absorbing 1,247 residents from the City of Subiaco.

History

File:Perth Town Hall (exterior).jpg|alt=|thumb|Perth Town HallPerth Town HallIn 1829, Captain James Stirling founded Perth as part of the Swan River Colony. A Perth Town Trust was formed in 1838, but remained largely non-functional for many years due to lack of finance and administrative capacity leading to its dissolution in 1858.JOURNAL, Johns, J. R. H., 1949, The Development of Local Government in Western Australia, The Australian Journal of Public Administration, 8, 4, 172–179, 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1949.tb02119.x, The City of Perth was officially declared on 23 September 1856WEB,weblink The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA: 1855–1901) Wednesday, 24th September, 1856, page 2., Inquirer and Commercial News, 24 September 1856, with Council meeting for the first time in December 1858.WEB, History of the Council,weblink 18 October 2022, City of Perth, In 1871, the City of Perth was reconstituted as a Municipal Corporation.In 1915, following the efforts of WE Bold and the greater Perth movement, the City absorbed the Municipality of North Perth (1901) and the Municipality of Leederville (1895), and on 1 November 1917, the Municipality of Victoria Park was also absorbed. A year later, it absorbed territory from Perth Road Board (including the Belmont Park Racecourse) and purchased the 526 hectares (1,300 acres) Limekilns Estate in the western suburbs. The City developed the suburbs of Floreat Park, Wembley Park and City Beach on these lands.In 1925, a new City of Perth Act gave the City additional powers over building control and regulation, including the power to declare new streets. In 1930 the first town planning committee was established.Criticism of the City’s governance by the David Davidson, the state's Town Planning Commissioner, led to a Royal Commission in 1938 on the grounds that the development of the western suburbs had led to the neglect of health and building administration in the central city area.Freestone, Robert & Foley, Neil (2016) David L. Davidson Early town planning reformer and administrato r (Conference paper) UHPH 2016By 1962, the council had 27 members representing nine wards.WA Electoral Commission, Municipality Boundary Amendments Register (release 2.0), 31 May 2003. In 1963 the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act required the City to establish a town planning department—which they did by appointing architect Paul Ritter in 1965.PCC (Perth City Council), Minutes, 15/06/1964, p. 193. Ritter’s two year tenure was short and turbulent, leading to public conflict with councillors and his termination in 1967.The City’s first town planning scheme was submitted to the Town Planning Board in 1973, but not formally adopted until 1985. The reason for the delay was a state government desire to take discretionary powers out of the hands of the Council. Council was felt to be too easily influenced by powerful developers.JOURNAL, Gregory, Jenny, 26 February 2009, Development pressures and heritage in the Perth Central Business district 1950–90, Australian Economic History Review, 49, 1, 34–51, 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2008.00248.x, free, On 1 July 1994, following the passage of the City of Perth Restructuring Act (1993), the City of Perth was broken up and a significantly reduced City of Perth constituted. The Town of Shepperton, Town of Cambridge and Town of Vincent were created from the former boundaries of the City.ACT, City of Perth Restructuring Act 1993, 20 December 1993,weblink 8 April 2016, The first elections were held on 6 May 1995, with eight councillors and a mayor.The City of Perth Act 2016 defined Perth as the capital of Western Australia,ACT, City of Perth Act 2016, 3 March 2016,weblink 8 April 2016, and expanded the City's boundaries to include a number of landmarks including Kings Park, University of Western Australia, Perth Children's Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre. The boundary changes took effect on 1 July 2016.NEWS, Foster, Brendan, City of Perth Act could cost jobs and impact services in Subiaco: Mayor,weblink 8 April 2016, WAtoday.com.au, 26 February 2016, Approximately 1,247 residents from Nedlands and Subiaco in the City of Subiaco were transferred to the City of Perth, and the City expanded to a total area of {{convert|20.01|km2|sqmi|0}}.The Perth City Council was suspended on 2 March 2018, pending the establishment of a public inquiry into the council, by Local Government Minister David Templeman. The council was administered by three Commissioners until 18 October 2020. The two-year Inquiry carried out up until that point, conducted at a cost of nearly A$8.0m made many findings, none of which resulted in criminal conviction.NEWS, Hon David Templeman MP, 2 March 2018, City of Perth council suspended, inquiry panel to determine fate, Western Australian Government, Media Release,weblink 9 May 2018, 9 May 2018,weblink dead, In July 2021, the City of Perth formally recognised the Whadjuk Noongar people as the traditional owners of Noongar Country, the land on which the "City of Perth (Boorloo)" is located, signing the agreement "Yacker Danjoo Ngala Bidi"WEB,weblink Minutes of the Ordinary Council Meeting, 6 July 2021, City of Perth, Attachment 12.1A – Yacker Danjoo Ngala Bidi (Working Together Our Way), with Whadjuk elders on 10 August.WEB,weblink City of Perth and Aboriginal Elders sign Yacker Danjoo Ngala Bidi, City of Perth, 6 October 2021, 20 April 2022,

Council

{{See also|List of mayors and lord mayors of Perth}}

Election results

2023

{{excerpt|Results of the 2023 Western Australian local elections|section=Perth}}

2021

{{excerpt|2021 Perth City Council election|section=Results}}

Suburbs

The suburbs of the City of Perth with population and size figures based on the most recent Australian census:WEB,weblink SLIP Map, maps.slip.wa.gov.au, Landgate, 1 January 2023, WEB,weblink NationalMap, nationalmap.gov.au, Geoscience Australia, 1 January 2023, {| class="wikitable sortable"!Suburb!data-sort-type=number|Population!data-sort-type=number|Area!MapCrawley, Western Australia>Crawley * {{#invoke:PopulationFromWikidata type=suburb input=P2046



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East Perth, Western Australia>East Perth * {{#invoke:PopulationFromWikidata type=suburb input=P2046



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Nedlands, Western Australia>Nedlands ** {{#invoke:PopulationFromWikidata type=suburb input=P2046



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Northbridge, Western Australia>Northbridge {{#invoke:PopulationFromWikidata type=suburb input=P2046



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Perth (suburb)>Perth * {{#invoke:PopulationFromWikidata type=suburb input=P2046



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West Perth, Western Australia>West Perth * {{#invoke:PopulationFromWikidata type=suburb input=P2046



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• The parts of these suburbs north of Newcastle and Summers Streets fall within the City of Vincent. These localities are only partially contained within the City of Perth boundary.
  • The parts of these localities were transferred from the City of Subiaco in 2016. These localities are only partially contained within the City of Perth boundary.

Population

Pre-1915 composition

{{More citations needed|date=October 2016}}{| class="wikitable"! Year! Population Perth| 35,767

1915–1994 composition

{{historical populations|cols=2|align=none| percentages=pagr 64,166 82,290 98,890 97,350 94,508 96,223 97,546 87,598 79,398 79,409 79,422}}The 1991 population has been broken down by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as follows: Perth (C) 7,604; Cambridge (T) 22,740; Victoria Park (T) 24,313; Vincent (T) 24,765.Time series data accompanying 2001 Census atweblink Accessed 10 December 2009.

1994–present composition

{{historical populations|cols=2|align=none| percentages=pagr 8,488 11,180 11,573 16,714 21,797 28,463}}

Twin towns and sister cities

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Oceania#Australia|l1=List of twin towns and sister cities in Australia}}The City of Perth is twinned with:{|class="wikitable" valign="top"|

• {{flagicon|JPN}} Kagoshima 1974WEB,weblink ja:姉妹・友好・兄弟都市, Twin cities, Kagoshima International Affairs Division, ja,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130602195754weblink">weblink 2 June 2013, 8 August 2013,
• {{flagicon|USA}} Houston 1984
• {{flagicon|GRE}} Megisti 1984
• {{flagicon|GRE}} Rhodes 1984

• {{flagicon|USA}} San Diego 1987
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Vasto 1989
• {{flagicon|CHN}} Nanjing 1998
• {{flagicon|ROC}} Taipei 1999

• {{flagicon|SCO}} Perth 2006
• {{flagicon|KOR}} Seocho 2008
• {{flagicon|CHN}} Chengdu 2010

Flag and coat of arms

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The official Flag of Perth represents the city of Perth, Western Australia. It features the Saint George's Cross overlaid with the coat of arms of Perth in the centre. Though the designer of the flag is unknown, it is thought to have been designed prior to 1872. In the 1920s, the black swan was removed from the top left quadrant of the flag and replaced with the coat of arms in the centre of the cross.WEB, History of the Council,weblink City of Perth, 19 December 2013, Perth (Western Australia)WEB,weblink The city standard, but do you recognise it?, 4 April 2012, The coat of arms were originally granted to the City of Perth on 2 December 1926. They were altered with the addition of part of the arms of Perth, Scotland in 1949.

Heritage listed places

{{As of|2024}}, 1,032 places are heritage-listed in the City of Perth,WEB,weblink City of Perth State Heritage Places, inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au, Heritage Council of Western Australia, 1 March 2024, of which 226 are on the State Register of Heritage Places.WEB,weblink City of Perth State Register of Heritage Places, inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au, Heritage Council of Western Australia, 1 March 2024,

References

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External links

{{Commons category|City of Perth}}

• {{Official websiteweblink}}

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