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]
For the part north of Reid Highway, the western end on Mirrabooka Avenue is covered by routes 374 and 376. Route 377 runs in Honeywell Boulevard, and route 378 runs in Australis Avenue; the eastern end on Alexander Drive is covered by routes 360, 361 and 362; the northern end on Beach Road is covered by route 449. All of these services are operated by Path Transit except route 374, which is operated by Swan Transit.
377 Mirrabooka Bus Station to Alexander Heights Shopping Centre – serves Chesterfield Road, Northwood Drive, Boyare Avenue, Honeywell Boulevard and Beach Road[19]
^Margaret A. Feilman Architects & Planners; State Housing Commission of Western Australia (1960), Mirrabooka project...Nollamara neighbourhood, Margaret A. Feilman, retrieved 20 September 2016
^Sinclair, Knight & Partners; State Housing Commission of Western Australia (1985), Mirrabooka Regional Centre : parking study report, Sinclair Knight & Partners (W.A.) Pty. Ltd. Consulting Engineers, retrieved 20 September 2016
