Dowerin is a town 156 kilometres north-east of Perth in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It is the seat of the Shire of D…Dowerin is a town 156 kilometres north-east of Perth in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It is the seat of the Shire of Dowerin. In 1906 the government extended the railway line 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, and another suggests it means "place of the throwing stick" (dower).
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