Western Australia has always had a greater sense of industry and workmanship than the eastern coast. Perhaps that’s because Perth and its surrounding areas were always working-class colonies, unoccupied by the stuffy officers and British gentlemen who attempted to rule over the rowdy Australian colonists in New South Wales. Even today, much of Perth’s culture is driven by working-class society. The mining boom triggered the mass migration of working-class people to Perth’s suburbs from around the world, creating an enclave of British, Irish and Australian workers flying in and out of Western Australia’s lucrative mines.