Australia have stumbled to 1-15, after Mitchell Starc's career-best 7-58 destroyed England for 172 in a scintillating start to the Ashes in Perth.

After Starc's brilliance, England quick Jofra Archer came out steaming to dismiss debutant Australia opener Jake Weatherald for a second-ball duck.

Despite Australia taking 28 balls to get off the mark, Steve Smith (7 not out) - who was strongly booed by English fans when walking out to bat - made it to tea with the recalled Marnus Labuschagne (6no)

Weatherald opened with Labuschagne, after Usman Khawaja was off the field "stretching" for too long to be allowed to bat immediately after England's innings ended.

Archer and fellow express quick Mark Wood, who are playing together against Australia for the first time after England elected not to pick a spinner, were regularly bowling close to 150km/h.

Smith then had to bat at No.3, with Weatherald's quick dismissal meaning regular opener Khawaja still had to wait before being eligible to come in.

England, whose innings lasted just 33 overs, will take confidence out of last year's Perth Test when India made just 150 on day one, before going on to comfortably win the match.

But Bazball's debut innings in Australia was an abject failure, no match for Starc's lethal pace and movement as he starred in the absence of Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.

England continued to attack and play aggressive shots, even as wickets regularly tumbled and Starc was bowling superbly.

The tourists collapsed twice in their innings - first to 3-39, then from 4-115 to be all out just 13 overs later.

England's aggressive No.5 Harry Brook was looking threatening, hitting Scott Boland all around Perth Stadium.

But Brook (52) fell to debutant Brendan Doggett (2-27), who claimed his first Test wicket after Australia reviewed an Alex Carey catch given not out.

Before the TV umpire could even adjudicate, Brook was walking off the ground because the ball touched his glove.

For the second-straight time, Starc made a famous start to an Ashes series, striking in the first over to send England into a familiar spin.

Four years after his iconic first-ball dismissal of Rory Burns at the Gabba, Australia's left-arm spearhead finished the opening over of this series with the wicket of Zak Crawley (0).

Starc wasn't done there, claiming Crawley's opening partner Ben Duckett (21), and most importantly, star batter Joe Root (0) before drinks.

A Perth record crowd of 43,591 was already in the stadium to see Starc claim a wicket in the first over of a Test for the 24th time.

"Obviously there has been a lot made of the two boys (Cummins and Hazlewood) not being here and me being the experienced one, so it's nice to lead that way," Starc told Fox Cricket.

"I think we knew that England were going to come hard and certainly after (they went) a few down they were going to try and counter-attack there."

Starc's figures surpassed his previous best of 6-9, which came in the last Test he played back in July against West Indies.

Doggett and Weatherald are on international debut, making it the first time Australia have blooded two debutants in the same Test since January 2019.

Doggett became Australia's 472nd Test cricketer and was presented with his baggy green by fellow late bloomer Boland and former star quick Jason Gillespie.

Boland and Doggett are creating history as the only two Indigenous players to be in the same Australian Test team.