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Innaloo is a more 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 Greater Union Megaplex Innaloo.
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Innaloo was originally named '''Njookenbooroo''' (sometimes spelt Ngurgenboro, Noorgenbora or similar variants) a local [[Noongar]] [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal]] name for a nearby [[wetland]].
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 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 [[loo]]" soon made the suburb a butt of many jokes. However, campaigns aimed at changing the name have failed to gaon 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|accessdate=2006-09-29|author=City of Stirling}}</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.
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