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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Annie Isabel Rankine MBE (1917-1972) was the first chair of the Point McLeay community council . [25] Leila Rankine (1932–1993) was a community worker and musician who co-founded the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music. [26] Doreen Kartinyeri (1935–2007) was a Ngarrindjeri elder and historian.
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The site of the community that is now Mount Margaret was founded as a mission by the United Aborigines Mission in 1921, and soon drew Aboriginal people from surrounding areas. [1] [2] By 1928, after the mission became the central rationing station for the whole district, the WA Government moved the Mount Margaret mission further east. [3]
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Warburton is the centre of a very large and extremely isolated Aboriginal reserve, Ngaanyatjarra, which stretches east to the Northern Territory border. Beyond there the first major settlement is Yulara, near Uluru. The closest town is Laverton 560 kilometres (350 mi) south west along the Great Central Road. Warburton is situated on the Elder ...