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Bidyadanga, also known as La Grange, is the largest Aboriginal community in Western Australia, with a population of approximately 750 residents.It is located 180 kilometres (110 mi) south of Broome and 1,590 kilometres (990 mi) from the state capital Perth, in the Kimberley region.
Wiluna has from 200 to 600 Aboriginal people living within its community, depending upon the nature, time and place of the traditional law ceremonies across the Central Desert region. The traditional Aboriginal owners (a grouping known as the Martu) were "settled" as a consequence of the British colonisation process that began in the 1800s. In ...
Many Aboriginal organisations are based in the Karratha area. The Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation is the registered native title body corporate. [7] The Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation Ltd (NYFL) is the representative body for many Traditional Owners across the area. NYFL delivers social, cultural and economic empowerment programs and social ...
Nganmarriyanga is an Aboriginal community that was originally established as Palumpa, the name of an adjoining cattle station. This station was established after the Second World War to provide supplies to nearby communities, including Wadeye. [1] Its name was changed from Palumpa at the request of the Community Council. [2]
The Wooleybah sawmill has been a major local employer within the local Aboriginal community, with many families living on site. According to Tom Underwood and his uncle, Dan Casey, the Wooleybah mill, from the 1930s to the 1990s, employed a large number of Aboriginal workers who lived on site with their families.
Since 1974, the community has been administered by the Ngarrindjeri people themselves; [17] it was renamed Raukkan in 1982. [4] Raukkan Aboriginal School is in the town. [18] In the 2021 Australian census the population was 96 persons, all of whom identified themselves as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. [1]
Pukatja (formerly Ernabella, Pitjantjatjara: Anapala) is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Amata, Pipalyatjara, Fregon/Kaltjiti, Indulkana and Mimili).
Each camp is a distinct Aboriginal community, based on language and kinship groups. [6] There is a high rate of domestic violence in the NT in general, including in the camps. Prominent anti-domestic violence campaigner and founding member of the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, 46-year-old R. Rubuntja, was murdered by her partner ...