Walkaway is a small town in the City of Greater Geraldton local government area of Western Australia.

Its name is a corruption of the native "Wagga wah", referring to the bend in the nearby Greenough River, and was originally given to the railway station when a line was built from Geraldton in 1887.

Decline set in with labour shortages associated with the First World War and the construction in 1915 of the parallel state government-owned Northern Railway, 50 kilometres to the east of the Midland Line.

[3][4] The Mid West region is identified as a potential location for developing renewable energy technologies that include additional wind and solar photovoltaic electricity projects, solar thermal, geothermal, bioenergy, and ocean energy.

[6] The Mumbida Wind Farm, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Walkaway, is a 55 MW renewable energy project developed by a joint venture of Verve Energy and Infrastructure Capital Group (ICG).