Before colonisation, the city now known as Perth was called 'Boorloo'. It was home to the Whadjuk Noongar people for more than 40,000 years.
Perth was founded in 1829 by Captain James Stirling near the entrance to the estuary of the Swan River. The important Ancestral Being the Wagyl created the meandering course of the Swan River with its powerful snakelike body.
On 19 September 2006, the Federal Court of Australia brought down an historic judgment recognising Noongar native title over the Perth metropolitan area.
