The name refers to the Beeliar people, a group of Aboriginal Australians who had[clarification needed] land rights over the southern half of Perth's metropolitan area.

[3][4][5] The suburb was named after an early settler-colonialist, Robert Menli Lyon,[clarification needed] who recorded and interacted with the local Aboriginal group in the area circa the nineteenth century.

[5][6][7] Before European contact, the suburb was occupied by the Beeliar group of the Whadjuk nation, who are part of the broader Noongar language region.

[5] The Noongar peoples have Dreaming stories related to the creation of the landforms in Beeliar and had lore that outlined the maintenance and care of the land.

[5] Oral history records and archaeology account for the Beeliar-Noongar belonging to the Beeliar suburb and its neighbouring areas.

Bibra Lake, which was still a feature within the Beeliar boundary during this time, was a site for the Australian Women's Army Service station during World War Two.

[10] Since the post-war era, Beeliar has undergone several council projects, such as the Wetlands Education Centre of Cockburn (established in the 1980s), and gradually developed into a modern metropolitan suburb by the 1990s.

Beeliar citizens have voiced their concerns to the council about protecting the suburban geographic features, such as the various wetlands (including Thomsons Lake).

[5] Since the pre-contact era, Beeliar, as a suburban area, holds important spiritual, economic and "medicinal" value for the local Aboriginal peoples.

[5] This is partly due to wetlands having “biologically productive” soil, which led to beneficial flora and fauna to live in Beeliar.

[5] Using the oral history transcripts and the few written records by early settler-colonialists, scholars suggest that Beeliar and its surrounding suburbs of the local council (City of Cockburn) were the lands of the Noongar/Nyungar peoples.

[5][9] Historians and archaeologists have estimated the Noongar peoples to live in the Whadjuk region, including the Beeliar suburb, for "well over 40,000" years.

[5] Lyon's records also regard the local Aboriginal peoples of the Beeliar area being a distinct "language" group as well as a district.

[5] Shellam (2012) identifies four dialectal groups within the Whadjuk: “Beeliar (south of Swan River), Mooro (north) and Beeloo (east)".

[14] During the hot seasons, with minimal rainfall, the land would dry, "which allowed the Noongar people to practice their traditional low-intensity firing regime in the area.

[14] In sum, the lands of Beeliar and its connecting suburbs were agriculturally cared for by the local Aboriginal groups.

[5][9] This colony's boundaries – including the future city, Perth, and the suburb, Beeliar – extended into the Whadjuk nation.

Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal writer Robert Menli Lyon, one of the first settler-colonialists from Britain, recorded the region of Beeliar as "the district of Midjegoorong" in 1833.

[7][6][17] He outlined the boundaries of this area as being "north-south from the Swan and Canning Rivers to Mangles Bay, and east-west from the sea to the Darling Scarp".

[10] One of the water reserves within Beeliar Wetlands, named Bibra Lake, was initially used for "dairying and market gardening and the inevitable rubbish dumping".

[10] Scholars have found that the mid-1900s also attracted Aboriginal peoples and groups to the region to participate in the booming industry of the suburb.

[10] This institution relies on the sites of Beeliar Wetlands, as well as Thomsons Lake (which is located within the suburb's newer boundaries) for its research and educational excursions.

[10] Historians have claimed that the Noongar peoples of the Beeliar area continued to camp and regularly practice ceremonies “through [to] the 1980s”.

[5] In addition to the Wetlands Education centre being established in the 1980s, the state government also agreed to develop Beeliar Regional Park.

Thomsons Lake Nature Reserve (sometimes spelt as "Thompsons") is the largest portion of the Wetlands within Beeliar.

[23] One of the recurring events held at the Community Centre is the Beeliar Hub, which is for parents with children for a social meeting.

[30] The final artwork is a metal sculpture depicting crops in a market garden by Dawn and Phillip Gamblen (local Croatian community representatives) installed at Spearwood Avenue.

The majority were born in Australia (62.4%), with other countries of birth including England, the Philippines, New Zealand, South Africa, and Portugal.

[36] The majority of Beeliar's population aged 15 or over are married (52.2%), with an additional 12.4% involved in a de facto marriage.

The most popular industries that they work in are hospitals (4.1%), primary education, supermarkets, aged care services, and iron ore mining.