Western Australia

Western Australia (Australian State)
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Large Australian state isolated from the others by deserts

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the western 32.9 percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi). It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. As of 2021, the state has about 2.67 million inhabitants Template:Ndash around 10.4 percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

Internal border controls

From late 2023, visitors to Western Australia by road, air or sea will have to pass through police-manned barricades where vehicles can be searched. The measures are part of a package of extraordinary powers being handed to police by Premier Mark McGowan under the pretext of stopping drug imports. The laws will be in place until at least 2028. During Covid from April, 2020 to March, 2022, Western Australia prevented anyone from entering the state using similar police barricades.

 

Group

Group	Start	Description
University of Western Australia	1911	Western Australia University with 106 Rhodes Scholars

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