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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are built communities for indigenous Australians within their ancestral country; the communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of ...
Kiwirrkurra, gazetted as Kiwirrkurra Community, is a small community in Western Australia in the Gibson Desert, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) east of Port Hedland and 700 kilometres (430 mi) west of Alice Springs. [4] It had a population of 165 in 2016, mostly Aboriginal Australians. [5] It has been described as the most remote community in ...
The governments of Australia and Western Australia have supported and funded these communities in a number of ways for over 40 years; prior to that Indigenous people were non citizens with no rights, forced to work for sustenance on stations as European settlers divided up the areas, or relocated under various Government acts.
The 2016 Australian census recorded the population of Jigalong as 333 people, of whom 87% were Aboriginal. [4]The Jigalong Remote Community School provides education from kindergarten to Year 12 level, with six teachers for a student enrollment of around 120 children.
The community school at Warralong is operated by The Nomads Charitable & Educational Foundation, which was established by Don McLeod and Ray Butler in 1971. The Nomads group also operate a remote Aboriginal community school at Strelley; the school is the oldest continuously operational school of its type in Australia.
According to the 2011 census, it has a population of 412 people [3] and is inhabited mostly by Aboriginal people from the Wunambal and Kwini language groups. Kalumburu Community is remote from any main roads – the nearest is the Gibb River Road, 270 km to the south via the Kalumburu Road.
The department is responsible for the portfolios of child protection, community services, disability services, housing, prevention of family and domestic violence, remote Aboriginal communities, seniors and ageing, volunteering, women's interests and young people, children and families. [5]
An outstation, homeland or homeland community is a very small, often remote, permanent community of Aboriginal Australian people connected by kinship, on land that often, but not always, has social, cultural or economic significance to them, as traditional land.