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• the 30-storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975?
• the Emu Brewery in Perth, Western Australia, traced its history to the town's first standalone brewery, which was founded less than a decade after settlement?
• the 1938 Art Deco styled and heritage listed Piccadilly Cinema is the only cinema still operating in the Perth CBD?
• the 1862 opening of the second Causeway in Perth, Western Australia, was disrupted by a young man on horseback who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?
• architect Harry Seidler described the skyscraper QV.1 (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia, as the best building he had ever built?
• the Palace Hotel in Perth, Western Australia was described at its opening as "one of the most beautiful and elegant hotels in Australasia"?
• the top of the 51-storey Central Park tower (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia sways about 30 cm (12 in) in the wind?
• when it was completed in 1976, the 32-storey Allendale Square in Perth, Western Australia, was one of the largest fully aluminium-clad skyscrapers in the world?
• when the Woodside Plaza (pictured) opened in 2004, it was the first high-rise office building to be constructed in Perth, Western Australia, in eight years?
• when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
• when completed in 1988, the 52-storey BankWest Tower in Perth, Western Australia (pictured) was the eighth tallest concrete skyscraper in the world?
• two separate newspapers called the Western Mail have been published in Perth, Western Australia, the first from 1885 to 1955 and the second from 1980 to 1988?
• although it was the tallest building in Perth, Western Australia, for most of the 1960s, Citibank House is now only the 26th tallest in the city?
• according to Noongar culture, the Wagyl is a snake-like Dreamtime creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning Rivers and other waterways around present-day Perth and the southwest of Western Australia?
• Perth-born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed?
• Council House in Perth, Western Australia, was built to coincide with that city's hosting of the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games?
• Perth is the first city to operate a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant to provide drinking water in Australia?
• Perth, Western Australia, got rid of ugly men in 1948?
• Indigenous Australian activist Robert Bropho won a case in the High Court of Australia challenging the redevelopment of Perth's Swan Brewery?
• Government House in Perth, Western Australia is the official residence of the Governor of Western Australia and was built between 1859 and 1864 largely with convict labour?
• His Majesty's Theatre (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia, is thought to be Australia's only remaining working Edwardian theatre?
• St Mary's Cathedral (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia, is expected to be completed in 2009, almost 80 years after expansions were halted due to the Great Depression?
• English architect Richard Roach Jewell designed many of the important public buildings in Perth, Western Australia during the latter half of the 19th century?
• Langley Park makes Perth the only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district?
• Lake Monger is one of the few remaining wetland areas in suburban Perth, Western Australia as up to 80% of the naturally occurring lakes and swamps north of the city have been reclaimed since European settlement in 1829?
• Jimmy Jack returned to his hometown of Perth after an argument with his The Black Balloon co-writer?
• Dumas House (pictured), a government office building in Perth, Western Australia, is named in honour of engineer and public servant Sir Russell John Dumas?