Mirrabooka, Western Australia
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| Coordinates: 31°51′47″S 115°52′12″E / 31.863°S 115.87°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Western Australia | ||||||||||||
| City | Perth | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1954 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 5.0 km2 (1.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 8,000 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 6061 | ||||||||||||
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Mirrabooka is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of Stirling. At the 2021 census it had a population of 8,000 people.
The name "Mirrabooka" is not a Noongar word, but comes from an eastern states Indigenous language and the town of Mirrabooka, New South Wales. It is cited as a local name for the Southern Cross constellation.[2]
The name "Mirrabooka" was originally applied to the Mirrabooka Project in the early 1950s, which was planned to be a satellite city of Perth housing up to 60,000 people and linked with the nearby Balcatta light industrial area. The project area comprised three suburbs: Balga, Nollamara, and Yirrigan. The suburb of Yirrigan was never fully developed and remained largely bushland, and was renamed Mirrabooka in 1980.[3]
In the early stages of development of the suburb, it was originally considered as an extension of Girrawheen,[4] and Nollamara.[5] In the 1980s and 1990s the suburb expanded rapidly with the subdivision of bushland, on which housing developments have been built,[6] especially north of Yirrigan Drive.
The Mirrabooka Square shopping centre, which originally opened in 1979,[7] has since received a number of expansions. A police station near the shopping centre was opened in 1998, and was expanded in 2015.[8]
