Mumballup is a locality in the

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region of

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, situated between

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and Boyup Brook, south of

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

. The town is in the

Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup Shire () is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries. It is generally synonymous with county (such as Cheshire and Worcestershire). British counties are among the oldes ...

. It was the location of the death of the former premier of Western Australia James Mitchell in 1951, on a train on the Donnybrook–Katanning railway line. Mumballup was once a siding on the Donnybrook–Katanning railway but the railway line ceased operation in 1982. The Mumballup siding, which opened in 1908, was closed in 1980. It is a location on the

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. Mumballup and the Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup are located on the traditional land of the

Wardandi The Wadandi, also spelt Wardandi and other variants, are an Aboriginal people of south-western Western Australia, one of fourteen language groups of the Noongar peoples. Name There are at least three theories about the meaning of the tribal et ...

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.

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{{authority control Towns in Western Australia Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup