Perth – and all this! : a story about a city. Courtney, Victor.

$40

A FEW decades ago Western Australia was the Cinderella State, and Perth was derisively spoken of as the capital of “a land of sand, sin, sorrow and sore eyes”. It was isolated, a week or more of travel by ship from the Eastern States with no other form of transport.

Now the whole scene has changed as if by the waving of some magic wand.