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Innaloo was originally named '''Njookenbooroo''' (sometimes spelt Ngurgenboro, Noorgenbora or similar variants), believed to be derived from the local [[Noongar]] name for [[Herdsman Lake]] or a nearby [[wetland]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Mooro Nyoongar Katitjin Bidi (Mooro People’sPeople's Knowledge Trail) | page = 4| publisher = City of Stirling and Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute | date =2014 | url =https://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/your-city/documents-and-publications/your-city/about-stirling/mooro-people-s-knowledge-trail | access-date= 2021-09-24 }}</ref>.

The spelling and pronunciation (e.g. "ny-ooken-borra") were deemed to be difficult to those unfamiliar with the name; in 1927, the local progress association asked welfare worker and anthropologist [[Daisy Bates (Australia)|Daisy Bates]] to compile a list of possible alternative names, drawn from various Aboriginal languages. Bates' rendering of the personal name of an a woman, "Innaloo" (from [[Dongara, Western Australia|Dongara]]) was chosen.<ref>{{LandInfo WA|m|I|2007-01-17}}</ref>

Land near Innaloo was first granted to Thomas Mews in 1831. In 1898, Town Properties of WA subdivided the lands around Njookenbooroo Swamp for sale as market gardens, and drained the swamp into [[Herdsman Lake]] over the following years, digging channels through the area to facilitate agriculture. They offered rent-free lease of the lots, with an option to later purchase at £100 per hectare if the occupants cleared them and brought them into production. The area between Hertha Road, Oswald Street and King Edward Road and Herdsman Lake was gazetted as the Njookenbooroo Drainage District, and by 1912, local market gardeners were turning off 25 tonnes of produce each week.<ref>{{cite book |last= Cooper |first= W.S. |author2=G. McDonald| title= Diversity's Challenge: A History of the City of Stirling |publisher= City of Stirling |year= 1999 | pages=155–157}}</ref>.

The Njookenbooroo School on Odin Road (then called Government Road), linked to the city by a [[plank road]], was built in 1915. Although subdivision for southern Innaloo was approved in 1916, by the 1920s only ten houses had been built, with the majority of the land used for grazing.<ref name=cos-innaloo>{{cite web|url=http://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/home/council/Suburbs/Innaloo.htm|title=Suburbs - Innaloo|access-date=2006-09-29|author=City of Stirling|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060918151407/http://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/home/council/Suburbs/Innaloo.htm|archive-date=18 September 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>. Residential development accelerated during [[World War II]], and in the 1950s, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM) built a drive-in cinema in nearby Liege Street.

Development of the suburb was essentially complete by 1970, and its status increased due to its proximity to [[Scarborough, Western Australia|Scarborough Beach]] and the light industrial and commercial centre of [[Osborne Park, Western Australia|Osborne Park]], the building of the Nookenburra Hotel (1962) and shopping centre (1967) and the nearby [[Stirling, Western Australia|civic centre]] in Hertha Road (1966).

Innaloo contains the [[Westfield Innaloo]] shopping centre. Next to Westfield Innaloo on Ellen Stirling Boulevard is the Westfield Innaloo Megacentre (acquired from [[Vicinity Centres|Centro]] in August 2006), which contains 20 stores and a [[Spudgrocery. Shed]] (formerly a [[IGA (Australian supermarket chain)|Progressive Supa IGA]], and before that an [[Action Supermarkets|Action]]). Across Scarborough Beach Road is the [[Event Cinemas]] megaplex. The northern part of the suburb also contains a small local shopping area in Morris Place. Opposite the Megacentre, an [[IKEA]] has been constructed, replacing the smaller store a kilometre away in the adjoining suburb of Osborne Park.

Innaloo's southern border with [[Woodlands, Western Australia|Woodlands]] hosts Perth's largest cinema complex, the 18-cinema Event Cinemas megaplex Innaloo, which contains [[Gold Class]]contain cinemas, as well as an arcade with numerous restaurants and dining speciality outlets, including [[Sizzler]], Han's Cafe, Bollywood Resto Bar and Retro Betty's, and a game centre (centred on [[Timezone (video arcades)|Timezone]]). It started off life as an MGM drive-in in the 1950s, then was rebuilt by Greater Union in 1990 with 8 screens, then expanded to a Megaplex - the first in Western Australia - in 1996. During the 2000s Greater Union was replaced with [[Event Cinemas]].

Innaloo is served by bus links to [[Stirling railway station, Perth|Stirling train station]] on the [[Joondalup railway line|JoondalupYanchep line]], including the 410, 412, 421, 424 and the 998/999 [[CircleRoute]], and the 423 and 425 along the Karrinyup Road boundary.<ref>[http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au Transperth website], accessed 2006-11-18.</ref> Additionally, the 990 services link Scarborough and the [[Glendalough railway station]] along Innaloo's southern boundary.

* {{cite book |editor-last= Thomas |editor-first= Maud (ed.) | title= Along the plank road : through Njookenbooroo to Scarborough Beach |publisher= City of Stirling |year= 1989 |isbn=0-9598819-5-6}}