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|city = Perth
|state = wa
|image = OswaldInnaloo Street,- InnalooSaint George overview.jpg
|caption = OswaldSaint George Hotel, Barnes Street, Innaloo
|lga = City of Stirling
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|area = 3.0
|postcode = 6018
|pop = 7,648<!--leave |blank pop_yearto =draw 2011the censuslatest automatically from Wikidata-->
|pop_footnotes = <ref>{{Census 2011 AUS|id=SSC50352|name=State Suburbs: Innaloo|quick=on|accessdate=4 July 2012}}</ref>
|dist1 = 9 | dir1 = NNE
|location1= [[Perth (suburb)|Perth CBD]]
|est = 1950s
|fedgov = [[Division of StirlingCurtin|StirlingCurtin]]
|stategov = [[Electoral district of Scarborough|Scarborough]]
|near-nw = [[Karrinyup, Western Australia|Karrinyup]]
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'''Innaloo''' is a suburb of [[Perth]], the capital city of [[Western Australia]], 9 km (5.6 mi) from [[Perth central business district|Perth's [[central business district]] in the [[Local government areas of Western Australia|local government area]] isof the [[City of Stirling]].
Innaloo is a morean established residential suburb that is also home to the [[Westfield Innaloo]] and Westfield Innaloo Megacentre shopping centres, and is adjacent to Perth's largest cinema complex, the 18-cinema GreaterEvent Union Megaplex InnalooCinemas.
==HistoryName==
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'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>
Innaloo was originally named "'''Njookenbooroo'''", a local [[Noongar]] [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal]] name for a nearby [[swamp]]. This name was too difficult to pronounce or spell, and in 1927, the local progress association asked welfare worker and anthropologist [[Daisy Bates (Australia)|Daisy Bates]] to compile a list of words and names. The name of an Aboriginal woman from [[Dongara, Western Australia|Dongara]] was chosen for the area.<ref>{{LandInfo WA|m|I|2007-01-17}}</ref> It is much beloved of comedians making fun of place names, along with the suburb of [[Upper Swan, Western Australia|Upper Swan]]. However, all attempts at changing the name from Innaloo have so far failed.
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 a woman, "Innaloo" (from [[Dongara, Western Australia|Dongara]]) was chosen.<ref>{{LandInfo WA|m|I|2007-01-17}}</ref>
Nevertheless, some local landmarks are still named "Nookenburra" – another variation of the original name.
The similarity of the name Innaloo to the phrase "in a [[wikt:loo#Noun 4|loo]]" soon made the suburb the butt of many jokes. However, campaigns aimed at changing the name have failed to gain significant support.
==History==
===From settlement to suburb===
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, even considering the vagaries of the weather and occasional pests.<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|accessdateaccess-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 modern Innaloo===
[[File:Hungry Jack's Innaloo 2021.jpg|thumb|left|A Hungry Jack's restaurant in Innaloo, Western Australia.]]
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). The [[Mitchell Freeway]] was extended to Hutton Street in 1981 and to Karrinyup Road in 1984, and the shopping centre also hosted the region's main bus station until the construction of [[Stirling railway station, Perth|Stirling bus/train interchange]] about a kilometre away in 1992. In 1999, Ellen Stirling Boulevard, named after the wife of the first [[James Stirling (Australian governor)|governor of Western Australia]], was constructed on land purchased from the last market gardeners in the area to replace the increasingly hazardous Oswald Street as the main through link between the freeway and the shopping areas. ▼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 is also the home for the first [[Hungry JacksJack's]] in Australia since 1971.
▲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). The [[Mitchell Freeway]] was extended to Hutton Street in 1981 and to [[Karrinyup Road ]] in 1984 ,. and theThe shopping centre also hosted the region's main bus station until the construction of [[Stirling railway station, Perth|Stirling bus/train interchange]] about a kilometre away in 1992. In 1999, Ellen Stirling Boulevard, named after the wife of the first [[James Stirling (Australian governor)| first governor of Western Australia]], was constructed on land purchased from the last market gardeners in the area to replace the increasingly hazardous Oswald Street as the main through link between the freeway and the shopping areas.
==Geography==
Innaloo is bounded by Karrinyup Road to the north, Huntriss Road to the west, [[Scarborough Beach Road]] to the south and [[Mitchell Freeway]] and the future line of Stephenson Avenue to the east. The majority of the suburb is residential, apart from the shopping areas in the south-east, several small parks and an undeveloped portion to the east of Ellen Stirling Boulevard.<ref name=streetsmart>2007 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth.</ref> Some of the undeveloped area next to Stirling station has been developed as a commercial area centred on a new [[IkeaIKEA]] store.
At the 2006 [[AustralianCensus Bureauin of StatisticsAustralia|ABScensus]] 2006 census, Innaloo had a mostly middle-income population of 6,470 people.<ref name=abs>{{Census 2006 AUS|id=SSC51676|name=Innaloo (State Suburb)|quick=on|accessdate=2008-10-05}}</ref>
Most homes are single detached homes of timber-frame construction built around [[World War II]], but some duplexes and recently built units also exist.<ref name=cos-innaloo/> A number of elderly homes including Geneff Village, named for Sorrento businessman and philanthropist George Geneff (who also built the Nookenburra Hotel), are located within the suburb.
==Facilities==
{{main|Westfield Innaloo}}
Innaloo contains the [[Westfield Innaloo]] shopping centre. Next to Westfield Innaloo on Ellen Stirling Boulevard is the Westfield Innaloo Megacentre (acquired from [[Centro PropertiesVicinity GroupCentres|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 Greater[[Event UnionCinemas]] Megaplexmegaplex. The northern part of the suburb also contains a small local shopping area in Morris Place. Opposite the MegacenterMegacentre, 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 GreaterEvent UnionCinemas Megaplexmegaplex 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]].
==Transport==
Innaloo is served by bus links to [[Stirling railway station, Perth|Stirling train station]] on the [[Joondalup railwayYanchep line|Joondalup Line]], including the 410, 412, 421, 424 and the 98998/99999 [[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. Innaloo's location next to the rail line makes it one of the best served areas for public transport in Perth.
Prior to the construction of the Stirling railway station as part of the [[Northern Suburbs Transit System]], a possible deviation of the rail alignment was considered to directly service the suburb and its shopping district including [[Westfield Innaloo]].<ref name="nsts_1989_p4">{{cite book | title = Northern Suburbs Transit System: Transport Study Report | publisher = Urban Rail Electrification Steering Committee, [[Government of Western Australia]] | year = 1989 | location =[[Perth]], [[Western Australia]]}} Pg. 4, Accessed at [[J S Battye Library]], [[Perth]]</ref> However, this idea was rejected by both the project and the public at large due to the significant cost, lack of identifiable benefits, and environmental impact grounds.<ref name="nsts_1989_p4"/>
==Politics==
Innaloo is a mixed-wealth suburb with many "[[mortgage belt]]" families, as well as many elderly voters. The Yuluma booth is among the northern suburbs' few genuinely marginal booths at federal level. However, they strongly support the [[Australian Labor Party]] at [[Parliament of Western Australia|state elections]].
{| style="margin-top: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"
|-
| valign=top | {{Australian Politics Suburb
| election = [[Australian federal election, 2004|2004 Federal Election]]
| elecref = AEC [http://results.aec.gov.au/12246/results/HousePollingPlaceFirstPrefs-12246-8186.htm]
| party1 = LIB | percent1 = 45.7
| party2 = ALP | percent2 = 40.3
| party3 = GRN | percent3 = 7.65
| party4 = CDP | percent4 = 2.31
| party5 = ONP | percent5 = 1.57}}
| valign=top | {{Australian Politics Suburb
| election = [[Australian federal election, 2001|2001 Federal Election]]
| elecref = AEC [http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/federal_elections/2001/results/7562.htm#8186]
| party1 = ALP | percent1 = 41.3
| party2 = LIB | percent2 = 39.2
| party3 = GRN | percent3 = 7.34
| party4 = DEM | percent4 = 5.74
| party5 = ONP | percent5 = 3.72}}
| valign=top | {{Australian Politics Suburb
| election = [[Australian federal election, 1998|1998 Federal Election]]
| elecref = AEC
| party1 = ALP | percent1 = 42.6
| party2 = LIB | percent2 = 36.8
| party3 = HAN | percent3 = 8.27
| party4 = GRN | percent4 = 6.12
| party5 = DEM | percent5 = 4.46}}
|-
| valign=top | {{Australian Politics Suburb
| election = 2005 State Election
| elecref = WAEC [http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/elections/state_elections/election_results/2005_State_General_Election/District_of_Churchlands/polling_place_results.php] [http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/elections/state_elections/election_results/2005_State_General_Election/District_of_Carine/polling_place_results.php]
| party1 = ALP | percent1 = 42.5
| party2 = LIB | percent2 = 31.0
| party3 = IND | percent3 = 11.8
| party4 = GRN | percent4 = 9.79
| party5 = CDP | percent5 = 4.91}}
| valign=top | {{Australian Politics Suburb
| election = 2001 State Election
| elecref = [http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/elections/state_elections/election_results/2001_State_General_Election/District_of_Innaloo/polling_place_results.php WAEC]
| party1 = ALP | percent1 = 44.7
| party2 = LIB | percent2 = 31.9
| party3 = IND | percent3 = 7.04
| party4 = GRN | percent4 = 6.81
| party5 = HAN | percent5 = 5.70}}
| valign=top | {{Australian Politics Suburb
| election = 1996 State Election
| elecref = [http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/elections/state_elections/election_results/1996%20State%20Election/96results/INN.pdf WAEC]
| party1 = ALP | percent1 = 41.7
| party2 = LIB | percent2 = 40.9
| party3 = GRN | percent3 = 6.94
| party4 = DEM | percent4 = 6.84
| party5 = IND | percent5 = 3.63}}
|}
== References ==
==Further reading==
* {{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}}</div>
==External links==
[[Category:Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia]]
[[Category:Suburbs in the City of Stirling]]
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