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Town of Victoria Park Western Australia
Population: • Density:	27,160 (2001 census) 1,541/km²
Area:	17.62 km²
Mayor:	J A M (Mick) Lee
Council Seat:	Victoria Park
Region:	South Metropolitan Perth
State District:	Victoria Park, South Perth
Federal Division:	Swan
Website: http://www.vicpark.ws
LGAs around Town of Victoria Park Swan River Belmont South Perth Town of Victoria Park Belmont South Perth Canning Canning

The Town of Victoria Park is a Local Government Area of Western Australia.  It covers an area of 17.62 km² in metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia.  The Town of Victoria Park maintains 154.55 km of roads, a little over 1 km² of parks and gardens and has a population of 27,160 as of the 2001 census.

It lies on the southern side of the Swan River, at the eastern end of the Perth CBD, and is connected to Fremantle and South Perth via Canning Highway; to the Perth CBD by Graham Farmer Freeway and The Causeway; to Belmont and Perth Airport by Great Eastern Highway and to Cannington by Shepperton Road and Albany Highway. The Perth-Armadale rail line passes through Burswood and forms the eastern boundaries of Lathlain and Carlisle.

The Town of Victoria Park is bounded on the East by the City of Belmont, on the South by the City of Canning and on the West by the City of South Perth.

Contents 1 History 2 Wards 3 Notes 4 Suburbs 5 External links

Originally governed by a road board in 1894, it was declared a municipality in 1897 with Hugh Duncan as the first Mayor.  It was amalgamated into the City of Perth in 1917 after becoming unsustainable as an autonomous political entity. In 1993 the Government of Western Australia decided to split up the Local Government Area(LGA) of the City of Perth, creating three additional LGA's and retain a smaller City of Perth. The new LGA's were Town of Vincent, Town of Cambridge and the Town of Shepperton which was later changed to its current name.

The Town is divided into 2 wards, each with 4 councillors:

• Victoria Park Ward
• Carlisle Ward

Victoria Park is the eastern gateway to the Perth CBD, being the intersection of the three original eastern arterial roads: Albany Highway, Canning Highway, Great Eastern Highway, and the Causeway Bridge. The Causeway connects Victoria Park to Perth CBD, which is located 3 km to the northwest.

The Causeway Bridge was the first major bridge engineering project in or about Perth, and involved augmenting the Heirisson mudflats into a proper island. The mudflats were at that time an important resource for the Noongar Indigenous Australians. The current bridge is the "third edition":

Originally opened in 1843;

Largely rebuilt after disastrous floods in 1862, reopened in 1867;

Improved several times in 1899, 1903, 1933 and 1943;

Completely rebuilt from 1947 and reopened in 1952.

Lathlain Park is the home of the (WAFL) Perth Football Club.

Victoria Park is also a locality within this municipality.

• Burswood
• Carlisle
• East Victoria Park
• Lathlain
• Victoria Park
• St James (Shared with City of Canning)
• Welshpool (Shared with City of Canning)
• Bentley (Shared with City of Canning)
• Kensington (Shared with City of South Perth)

• Town of Victoria Park website

Suburbs of the Town of Victoria Park
Victoria Park | Burswood | Lathlain | Carlisle | Welshpool | St James | Bentley | East Victoria Park | Kensington |