Located 75km south of Perth, the Peel is Western Australia’s smallest region geographically, but one of the state’s fastest growing population centres, presenting opportunities for innovation in workforce skills, industry growth and economic diversification.

The Peel has a diverse landscape incorporating 50 kilometres of pristine coastline and urban, agricultural and horticultural land.

With a coastal plain bordered inland by the Darling Scarp, the Peel region is situated amongst the highest rainfall areas of South Western Australia. This climate, along with 23 rivers, streams and creeks, provides an extensive wetland system that is of international and national significance, supporting diverse and unique flora and fauna.

The five Peel Region councils are Mandurah, Murray, Serpentine Jarrahdale, Waroona and Boddington.

Located 75km south of Perth, the Peel is Western Australia’s smallest region geographically, but one of the state’s fastest growing population centres, presenting opportunities for innovation in workforce skills, industry growth and economic diversification.

The Peel has a diverse landscape incorporating 50 kilometres of pristine coastline and urban, agricultural and horticultural land.

With a coastal plain bordered inland by the Darling Scarp, the Peel region is situated amongst the highest rainfall areas of South Western Australia. This climate, along with 23 rivers, streams and creeks, provides an extensive wetland system that is of international and national significance, supporting diverse and unique flora and fauna.

The five Peel Region councils are Mandurah, Murray, Serpentine Jarrahdale, Waroona and Boddington.

Located 75km south of Perth, the Peel is Western Australia’s smallest region geographically, but one of the state’s fastest growing population centres, presenting opportunities for innovation in workforce skills, industry growth and economic diversification.

The Peel has a diverse landscape incorporating 50 kilometres of pristine coastline and urban, agricultural and horticultural land.

With a coastal plain bordered inland by the Darling Scarp, the Peel region is situated amongst the highest rainfall areas of South Western Australia. This climate, along with 23 rivers, streams and creeks, provides an extensive wetland system that is of international and national significance, supporting diverse and unique flora and fauna.

The five Peel Region councils are Mandurah, Murray, Serpentine Jarrahdale, Waroona and Boddington.

In the Peel region the Western Australian Food Innovation Precinct (WAFIP) is being developed to support Western Australia in building a robust and vibrant food and beverage manufacturing sector.

Specialised equipment and research and production capabilities will ensure the Precinct offers a substantial variety of technologies and processing methods, aimed at scientifically proving nutrition and traceability, and the development of high-value food with extended shelf life.

The Precinct will create an enabling environment for Western Australian, Australian and global entrepreneurs, food companies and agri-enterprises to cost-effectively network, research, develop, prototype and market-test new value-added food products derived from Western Australia primary produce.

The changing climate will become an increasingly powerful driver.
Regardless of what people believe is the cause, it is getting hotter – every year for 44 years now. Bushfires have seen issues become increasingly political and there will likely be conflict between those seeking restoration of the planet and those seeking to find a way forward through technology.

Water Security is the capacity of the region to safeguard and provide sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, socio-economic development and preserving ecosystems.

Changing climatic conditions are expected to change the frequency, duration and ferocity of storms. There is a possibility of cyclonic activity moving further
south and an increase in cool season tornadoes with associated storm damage and flooding. Bushfire risk is also expected to increase.

Many people enjoy the natural wonders of the Murray River, Yalgorup National Park, beaches of the Indian Ocean and the Peel-Harvey Estuary, the largest and most diverse estuarine system in the south- west of WA. In the middle reaches of the Peel Region are extensive areas of eucalypt forest and the Darling Scarp to the west of the forests provides an abrupt, stunning backdrop to the Coastal Plain.

All of these environmental assets are under threat from influences including factors associated with climate change and the encroachment of population and industry. All of these assets are at, or nearing, critical levels in their existence and require urgent intervention.

Creative industries are defined as “those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent, and that have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property”.

The creative industry workforce has expanded from a focus on creative workers in the arts and cultural sector to a broader group of ‘creative industries’, incorporating workers with creative roles in design, marketing and the digital economy.

Located at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, the Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery has free exhibitions on display throughout the year. It presents around 10 diverse exhibitions each year featuring contemporary, indigenous, historical, traditional, design and sculptural artworks. The Mandurah Performing Arts Centre Foyer Galleries represent emerging and early career artists, supported by the Black Stump Gallery, Contemporary Art Spaces, Liveringa Gallery and Dwellingup Arts Collective.

Located 75km south of Perth, the Peel is Western Australia’s smallest region geographically, but one of the state’s fastest growing population centres, presenting opportunities for innovation in workforce skills, industry growth and economic diversification.

The Peel has a diverse landscape incorporating 50 kilometres of pristine coastline and urban, agricultural and horticultural land.

With a coastal plain bordered inland by the Darling Scarp, the Peel region is situated amongst the highest rainfall areas of South Western Australia. This climate, along with 23 rivers, streams and creeks, provides an extensive wetland system that is of international and national significance, supporting diverse and unique flora and fauna.

The five Peel Region councils are Mandurah, Murray, Serpentine Jarrahdale, Waroona and Boddington.

Murdoch University sub-campuses are located at Whitby and Mandurah and there is a TAFE campus at Mandurah. Mandurah is identified as a location for further growth, with the potential for an additional campus in the Mundijong/Whitby area.

There is an expanding supply of primary and secondary schools across the region, public and private, as well as access to Education Support Centres, Language Development Centre and Intensive English Centres.

Today’s educational systems are fundamentally misaligned with the future of work. It is expected that there will be a major disruption. The future will be less about knowledge and increasingly a lifelong approach to being technology-enabled and developing skills.

The need for reskilling will be more vocational so universities will need to adapt for relevance. Courses will also need to be shorter. Traditional three-year degrees are luxuries that cannot be afforded by reskilling workers.

This program, based around the activities of the WA Food Innovation Precinct (WAFIP) located within the Peel Business Park, will position Peel to take advantage of the opportunities relate to the substantial domestic and export market opportunities that have opened up on the back of Free Trade Agreements with most of our major trading partners in Asia.

Healthy soils, water resources are the basis of long-term food production & farm profitability. Producers can see the importance of regenerating land, landscapes to their businesses, need technical, logistical support to implement new soil & on-farm water management practices.

Broadacre agriculture (inc. 400 beef grazing ops), 70% of the Peel coastal plain, is a major contributor to the economy, amenity & environmental condition of the Peel Region.

The region currently supports grazing of cattle, horses and sheep, vegetables, fruit trees, grapes, berries, poultry, pigs and cattle feedlots.

Existing regional health facilities are located at Armadale, Mandurah and Pinjarra, while no facility is currently planned, about eight hectares of land is to be retained as a potential long-term option at Karnup (East).

We deliver quality, safe and effective hospital services within a catchment area stretching 3,300 square kilometres across the southern half of Perth.

All of our hospitals work together. As a result, you may receive your health care at more than one hospital. For example, you may receive your initial surgery at a tertiary hospital and your follow-up care at another hospital closer to your home.

Peel Health Campus is a general hospital with some 206 licensed beds, bays and treatment spaces. The campus is located one hour south of Perth in Mandurah. It is the major healthcare provider for the Peel region which is one of the fastest growing areas in Australia.

Peel Health Campus provides a wide range of healthcare services with a 24 hour emergency care centre and comprehensive medical, surgical, maternity and rehabilitation services. The hospital accommodates a specialist medical centre as well as pharmacy and diagnostic services.

Bauxite, gold and other mining operations in the generate over $3 billion in exports annually.

The Peel’s minerals sector produces alumina, gold, copper and mineral sands. The key resource companies operating regionally include Alcoa (Pinjarra and Wagerup), South 32, Newmont (Boddington), and Doral (Keysbrook).

The Avertas Energy Waste to Energy plant will be the first of its kind in Australia, integrating the recovery and reuse of waste with the generation of energy to provide a practical solution to two community challenges: waste disposal and renewable energy supply.

The facility will use tried and tested moving grate combustion technology already operational in more than 2,000 similar waste to energy plants around the world. The facility has the capacity to process 400,000 tonnes per year of general waste, resulting in a significant reduction in CO2 emissions and delivering 36MW of baseload electricity to the grid. Waste to energy technology is a viable, clean and sustainable alternative to landfill disposal, which compliments the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) and is integral to any modern integrated waste management system.

Waste is thermally treated with resultant energy recovered to create heat. The heat energy is converted to steam energy which powers a turbine and generates electricity.