Perth
Perth is Australia's fourth-most-populous city, having overtaken Adelaide's population in 1984. In June 2017 there were an estimated 2,022,044 residents in the Greater Perth area, representing a population increase of approximately 1.0% from the 2015 estimated population of 2,002,114.
History of Perth, Western Australia
The convict workforce led to an improvement in the prospects of the colony, however Perth's underlying identity as a remote and rustic frontier town remained unchanged. Despite being proclaimed a city by Queen Victoria in 1856, fourteen years later a Melbourne journalist could describe Perth as: