Dowerin, Western Australia

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Dowerin is a town and shire located 156 km north east of Perth in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. In 1906 the government extended the railway from Goomalling to the developing Dowerin Agricultural Area and decided to develop a townsite at the terminus. The Aboriginal name of the site chosen was "Wuguni", but "Dowerin", also an Aboriginal name, was already in local use for the place, and was the name gazetted in 1907. The name is derived from nearby Lake Dowerin, first recorded on maps around 1879. One source suggests Dowerin is the Aboriginal word for the twenty eight parrot (Dow-arn), and another suggests it means "place of the throwing stick"(dower). The Shire of Dowerin has a population of 790.

Dowerin is home to the one of the largest machinery shows in Western Australia the Dowerin GWN Field Day. Held in August every year it attracts thousands of farmers and others to the town of Dowerin.