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Jolimont is a small western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Subiaco, although a small portion of the suburb is administered by the Town of Cambridge west of the CBD. The suburb is believed to be named after the Melbourne suburb of Jolimont, which was in turn named after “Jolimont” – the residence of Governor La Trobe. Its postcode is 6014.

Jolimont only has a small residential section, with most of its land area taken up with parks and sporting facilities, although its catchment area takes in blocks of flats on Cambridge Street, Wembley, and the entire suburb of Daglish. The suburb has a primary school and is served by the CircleRoute, as well as being near Daglish train station.

Jolimont is home to the Matthews Netball Centre and the Pat Goodridge Hockey Centre, as well as other courts and open spaces.

Prior to European settlement, the area was inhabited by the Mooro group of the Whadjuk Noongar people. They were led by Yellagonga and inhabited the area north of the Swan River, as far east as Ellen Brook and north to Moore River. Lakes and wetlands across the region, including within the Jolimont Swamp, were a source of food for them, and are places of spiritual importance.

Around the 1930s as a result of the Great Depression, camps of Aboriginal people appeared around the outskirts of Perth as these people moved to Perth in search of work. A report in 1937 recommended that a camp in Jolimont be disbanded. A freshwater spring in the south-west of Jolimont Swamp was a permanent camp for Clara Layland, an elder and custodian of knowledge known to the Noongar people as the “Daglish granny”. Other Aboriginal people camped there until the mid-20th century.