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Perth, Western Australia has been changing a lot in recent
years. The population has risen considerably and now stands at close to 1.7
million. It's no longer a "big country town," as so many people used
to describe it in the past, but a substantial, bustling city in its own right.
This recent growth of the city has been primarily due to the
ongoing "commodities boom" in which huge quantities of the state's
natural resources are transported to the rapidly developing economies of China
and India.
There are several big mining projects in the north of the
state. While some of these projects' employees live in nearby towns, many
remain in Perth. These often quite young FIFO ("fly in, fly out")
workers can earn huge money and are sometimes derisively referred to as
"cashed up bogans."
As well as big population and demographic changes, there's
been an amazing amount of demolition of old buildings and construction of new
ones. If you drive through the suburbs you really notice it. There hardly seems
to be a street that isn't undergoing at least some change. In some of the outer
suburbs you are stuck by the sheer number of large, gleaming
"McMansions" that have been completed.
While the central business district isn't quite as big and
busy as, say, Beijing's, the Perth skyline is definitely changing apace. The
Equus luxury apartment complex is one of these new structures. It dominates an
entire block in the CBD, dwarfing the Town Hall clock tower at the corner of
Hay and Murray Streets. It also looms over the Medina Executive Barrack Plaza
Hotel, which itself was built in recent years and used to dominate that part of
the city.
But the two building sites that seem to capture best what is
happening in Perth are the old Perth Entertainment Centre and the new Perth Arena,
both located between the railway line and Wellington Street in the heart of the
city.
The "Ent Cent" as it was affectionately known was
built back in 1974. It had a capacity of just over 8000 seats and housed many
big international shows over the years. World famous bands and artists who
performed there included Wings, Eric Clapton, John Denver, David Bowie, ABBA,
Elton John, The Police, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, INXS, U2, Celine Dion and
Robbie Williams among many others. It remained the city's premier entertainment
venue until it finally ceased operation in 2002.
Now, in 2011, this building is slowly being demolished. If
you catch a bus from nearby Northbridge into the Wellington Street Bus Station
you go right past it. Every day a bit more of it is gone.
And just as The Perth Entertainment Centre is disappearing
bit by bit, only a stone's throw away the massive new sport and entertainment
complex called Perth Arena is taking shape. As of this writing the basic
internal structure has been completed, and the outer layers are gradually being
added. While not in the same league as some of the venues of its kind in other
countries, such as the vast 02 complex in London, it is still a huge and
impressive building. It certainly dwarfs what's left of the Entertainment
Centre, which was the dominant structure there for so many years. You only get
a true sense of its size when you see the workmen crawling like ants across its
surface. It is due for completion in 2012.
Matt Hayden is a writer living in Perth, Western Australia.
He writes a blog about Perth that documents many of the changes the city is
undergoing.
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