Martin is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Gosnells. It was named in 1974 after a pioneer family of the Gosnells district, and in particular Edward Victor Martin who had served for 37 years on the council. Martin was formerly the location of the popular tourist attraction Cohuna Koala Park owned and run by the Sorbello family at 322 Mills Road East.
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Banyowla Regional Park, formerly Kelmscott-Martin Regional Park, is a conservation park situated 20 kilometres south-east of the Perth central business district in Western Australia. It is located in the Perth Hills, within the City of Gosnells and the City of Armadale. The regional park was re-named in 2008 after Banyowla, who was a Noongar elder at the time of European settlement.
Banyowla is one of eleven regional parks in the Perth region of Western Australia. The purpose of these regional parks is to serve as urban havens to preserve and restore cultural heritage and valuable ecosystems as well as to encourage sustainable nature-based recreation activities.
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Lumen Christi College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, located the south-eastern Perth suburb of Martin, Western Australia.
The school provides a religious and general education to students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school has five houses, Campbell, Mackillop, Salvado, Tangney & Yagan.
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Seaforth railway station is a suburban railway station in Gosnells, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is on the Armadale line which is part of the Transperth network, and is 22.6 kilometres south-west of Perth station and 7.8 kilometres north of Armadale station. The station opened on 4 May 1948 with low-level platforms. High-level platforms were added in 1968. The station consists of two side platforms with a pedestrian level crossing. It is not fully accessible due to steep ramps and a lack of tactile paving.
Services are operated by the Public Transport Authority. Peak services reach seven trains per hour in each direction, whilst off-peak services are four trains per hour. The station is one of the least used ones on the Transperth network, with just 136 boardings per day in October 2017. The station was closed for 18 months in November 2023 to facilitate construction of the Victoria Park-Canning Level Crossing Removal and Byford Rail Extension projects.
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Gosnells railway station is located on the South Western Railway 21 kilometres from Perth Station in the suburb of Gosnells. It is served by Armadale Line services which are part of the Transperth network.
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107.3 HFM is a community radio station that broadcasts on 107.3 MHz FM from its studios at 43 Mills Road West in Gosnells, Western Australia. It broadcasts a wide range of locally produced music and information programs.
The station commenced broadcasting on 26 January 1998 from studios in Orchard Avenue, Armadale, Western Australia on the 93.7 MHz FM frequency, and continued on that frequency until it switched to its current 107.3 MHz FM frequency in 2002. Perth commercial radio station Nova 93.7 now broadcasts on the 93.7 MHz FM frequency.
In 2007, the station began live streaming to the internet. In 2022, the station won Best Program – Music for Beats, Rhymes and Life at the CBAA Awards.
The chairman of the station is Ryan Honschooten.
International visitors such as Sir David Attenborough, Dolly Parton, Michael Jackson and Colonel Harland Sanders visited Cohuna during its time located in Martin. The site is now the location of the Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre.
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