Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku
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The Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku is a remote local government area in Western Australia near the Northern Territory/South Australian border. It is Template:Cvt from Perth.
It was formed on 1 July 1993 following a report of the Local Government Boundaries Commission in 1992. The Shire of Wiluna was divided with the eastern area becoming the new Shire.
It is a community of interest within the traditional lands of the Ngaanyatjarra people of the Central Desert of Western Australia. The 99-year leases held by the Ngaanyatjarra Land Council on behalf of the traditional owners also form the boundaries of the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku.
The Shire has Template:Cvt of gravel road and is far from bitumen roads.
The Federal Court of Australia on 29 June 2005 consented to the native title claim over approximately Template:Cvt (about the size of Syria) of land in the Central Desert Region in the Shires of Laverton and Ngaanyatjarraku.
Ngaanyatjarra is the first language of most residents (65%, see below) with the other language significantly represented being Pitjantjatjara.
Population
The 2021 ABS Census indicated that the region's 1,358 residents comprised 48.5% males and 51.5% females, with 84.5% of the population being Indigenous Australians. The Ngaanyatjarraku community has a greater proportion of younger people than the overall Australian population and a lesser proportion of older people, reflected by the median age of 30 years of age compared with 38 Australia-wide.[1]
Some other statistics:[1]
- 84.5% of the population identify as Aboriginal Australian
- 71.4% (970) speak Ngaanyatjarra at home
- 9.9% speak English only at home (cf 72.0% nationwide)
Communities and localities
The Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku covers Template:Convert and is the local government authority responsible for the provision of services to the communities.[2] There are 10 small local centres within the Ngaanyatyarra Lands.[3]
The communities and localities of the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku with population and size figures based on the most recent Australian census:[4][5][6]
| Locality | Population | Area | Map |
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| Gibson Desert South | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Irrunytju | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Kanpa Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Mantamaru Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Ngaanyatjarra-Giles | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Papulankutja Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Patjarr Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Tjirrkarli Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Tjukurla Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Wanarn Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Warakurna Community | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
| Warburton | Script error: No such module "PopulationFromWikidata". | Template:Cvt | Template:Infobox mapframe |
Kiwirrkurra and Yilka (Cosmo Newbery) lie outside the Lands, but are served by the Shire.[7][8]
Giles Weather Station is also within the Shire.[9]
Council statistics
- Location: Gibson / Great Victoria Deserts
- Length of Sealed Roads (km): 12.6
- Length of Unsealed Roads (km): 1,444
- Population: 1,335 (2006 Census)
- Educational Institutions
- Colleges 1
- Primary & High Schools (K −10) 8
Ngaanyatjarra Council (Aboriginal Corporation)
The associated Ngaanyatjarra Council operates
- Air services (contracted to Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF))
- Tertiary education (Ngaanyatjarra Community College, Warburton)
- Communities
- Land Management
- Native Title Representative Body
- Ngaanyatjarra Agencies and Transport Services Inc (NATS)
- Ngaanyatjarra Services (Aboriginal Corporation)
- Roadhouses
- Tjukayirla
- Warakurna
- Warburton
- Service Stations
- Caltex Alice Springs fuel franchise supplies Caltex fuel and petroleum products to all Ngaanyatjarra communities, workshops and roadhouse facilities.
- Caltex Roadhouse – Alice Springs
Heritage-listed places
As of 2023, two places are heritage-listed in the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku, the Giles Meteorological Station and the Warakurna Multi-Function Police Facility,[10] neither of which are on the State Register of Heritage Places.[11]
References
External links
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