Bannister is a rural

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality, a historical named location or place in Canada * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localitie ...

, predominately located within the

Shire of Boddington The Shire of Boddington is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the Peel (Western Australia), Peel region of Western Australia, about south-east of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and ...

in the Peel Region of Western Australia. A smaller part of the locality, located on the eastern side of the

Albany Highway Albany Highway links Western Australia's capital city Perth with its oldest settlement, Albany, Western Australia, Albany, on the state's South coast of Western Australia, south coast. The highway travels through the southern Wheatbelt (Weste ...

, is within the

Shire of Wandering The Shire of Wandering is a local government area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, and, with a population of 444 as at the , is one of the nation's smallest. It covers an area of generally to the east of Albany Highway about so ...

in the Wheatbelt region of the state. The locality is also home to the majority of the Boddington Gold Mine operations. Bannister is on the traditional land of the

Wiilman The Wiilman people are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Noongar group, from the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and South West regions of Western Australia. Variant spellings of the name include Wilman, Wirlomin, Wilmen and Wheelman. ''Wiilm ...

people of the

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the South West, Western Australia, south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton, Western Aus ...

nation. The name Bannister was originally applied to another townsite between Williams and Narrogin, which was surveyed in 1844 but no subdivision was carried out and the reserve cancelled in 1910. The modern Bannister locality is named after the Bannister River. The site of the original police station house and coach house on Albany Highway is now occupied by the Riverside Roadhouse, which is a stop on the

Transwa Transwa is Western Australia's regional public transport provider, linking 240 destinations, from Kalbarri in the north to Augusta in the south west to Esperance in the south east. The Transwa system provides transport between Perth and the ...

bus services to Albany and Esperance.GS1 timetable (PDF)
(8 May 2018) an
GE1 timetable (PDF)
(20 November 2017). Retrieved on 14 June 2018.

References

{{Towns Peel WA Shire of Boddington Shire of Wandering