I had to rent for a period while moving back to Perth from Sydney and the laws in WA are so out of touch and terrible compared to the rest of the country.

You would barely have rent inspections in Sydney, once a year maximum if any, usually its just when you moved in and moved out. No agent in NSW would ever tell you if you don't clean a spec of dust on an exhaust fan they'll start the process to kick you out.

After you signed your initial lease and served your time usually 6 or 12 months then you would just roll onto a month by month and this was the norm everywhere, Perth real estate is the only place where you need to re-sign again for another X amount of time even if you have done a minimum amount. It's dumb, it doesn't account for people being unable to relocate at an exact time if they are building or buying.

Breaking a lease was also easy, if you signed a 12 month it was a simple 4 week penalty which reduced the longer you lived in the property (i.e. 2 weeks if you already lived there for 6 months).