University of Western Australia

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Abbreviation	UWA
Formation	1911
Headquarters	Perth,Western Australia
Type	public,research
Western Australia University with 106 Rhodes Scholars

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilities elsewhere.

UWA was established in 1911 by an act of the Parliament of Western Australia and began teaching students two years later. It is the sixth-oldest university in Australia and was Western Australia's only university until the establishment of Murdoch University in 1973.

Alumni of UWA include one Prime Minister of Australia (Bob Hawke), five Justices of the High Court of Australia (including one Chief Justice, Robert French, now Chancellor), one Governor of the Reserve Bank (H. C. Coombs), various federal cabinet ministers, and seven of Western Australia's eight most recent premiers. As of 2021, the university had produced 106 Rhodes Scholars. Two members of the UWA faculty, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won Nobel Prizes as a result of research at the university.

Population reduction

In 2007, Barry Walter, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, suggested every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime. "Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society," he wrote, while calling for condoms and "greenhouse-friendly" services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits.