Medina, Western Australia
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| Medina Kwinana, Western Australia |
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| Population: | 2,022 (2006) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 6167 | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | Town of Kwinana | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Division of Brand | ||||||||||||
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Medina is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Town of Kwinana. Its postcode is 6167.
Medina is a well established suburb, designed in the early 1950s by Perth's first female town planner, Margaret Feilman. Medina was the first of Kwinana's four 'neighbourhood units' developed to meet the housing needs of the newly established BP Refinery.
The housing is typical of this era (for Western Australia)and similar to the suburb of Hilton. Mostly the houses are built with Jarrah hardwood and almost all of them feature Jarrah hard wood floors. Deconstructing a cottage also reveals that all the internal structures are Jarrah.
The blocks on which the houses sit are also very large, with most blocks at or above 730m2.
Medina gained a reputation for social issues during the 70's, 80's and 90's due to a very high percentage of government housing (78%), however nowadays the percentage is down to 7.2% and the suburb is undergoing a renaissance in growth and demographics.
Recently the Government announced an injection of $11.2 bn for improvements in infrastructure, community based programs and new commercial enterprise along with medium density housing around the centre of the Kwinana area.
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