Win, and the Ashes are retained. Lose, and the urn will be imperilled as Australia gain exponentially in belief for the festive season run-in at Melbourne and Sydney.
There is a third possible result, a draw, but there has been only one of those at Perth in the past five years.
Winning at Perth is never easy for visiting teams and pitted against an England victory, apart from an alien pitch and an Australian side eager to present themselves in a truer light, is a history in which they have won just once in the 40 years since Tests were first played here.
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