With the no. of new-to-kiting people we see in the shop planning to kite through winter in Perth please be warned.

It used to be that for your first, and for most even your second, winter was a strictly NO GO exercise which pretty much everyone observed.
Yes, with the latest kites, it is way safer and more fun than it ever was BUT it can still be extremely dangerous. Even the most pleasant of our gusty westerlies can turn super nasty with little warning.
If you are venturing out please realise that those who are already out there are probably experienced kiters who know and accomodate for risk.

DONT kite in areas where there is danger close to shore - THIS IS ESPECIALLY RELEVANT FOR MELVILLE. MELVILLE SHOULD BE TOTALLY BANNED ALL WINTER. I hope those who teach there stress this to students during lessons in summer.

WATCH the horizon regularly. You can usually spot the squalls (over 50kph sometimes but regularly over 40 on any squally westerly day)
If its coming in quicker than you can get to shore and land safely head out to sea, drop your kite and sit it out.
They usually dont last all that long but even if they do its way safer to drift into shore with a downed kite than to get caught out attempting to come in and land ur kite when it hits.

And one last caution (I learnt the hard way ) is dont assume that cos the first, or even several, squalls coming through were kitable that the next one will be. Squalls are not always regular in intensity. The only thing that almost certainly save my life the day I learnt this lesson was that I was, by coincidence - not choice, a long way off shore when I was hit by what looked just like the last squall I quite enjoyed but this time felt like a hurricane.
Home to sanitise the wetty that day