7-608: Tjuntjuntjara , also spelt Tjuntjuntjarra , is a large Aboriginal community located 560 km (350 mi) north east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia , within the Shire of Menzies in the southern part of the Great Victoria Desert . The community was established in 1988 after a water bore was drilled at the location. The Tjuntjuntjara community members are part of
14-731: A larger group known as the Spinifex people , who were removed from their homelands (which range across the WA and SA border lands) prior to the British nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s. Tjuntjuntjara Layout Plan No.1 was prepared in accordance with State Planning Policy 3.2 Aboriginal Settlements. Layout Plan No.1 was endorsed by the community on 3 December 2003 and the Western Australian Planning Commission on 4 May 2004. Tjuntjuntjara community
21-615: Is a large Aboriginal community located 560 km (350 mi) north east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Menzies in the southern part of the Great Victoria Desert. It is also sometimes spelt Tjuntjuntjarra. It is located within the fully determined Spinifex People (WAD6043/98) native title claim area. The community relies upon regular supplies trucked from Ceduna in South Australia . The community
28-697: Is managed through its incorporated body, Paupiyala Tjarutja Aboriginal Corporation, incorporated under the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976 on 19 April 1989. The Spinifex Arts Project is a non-profit Aboriginal-owned art centre at Tjuntjuntjara. It is a member of Desart . Aboriginal communities in Western Australia Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are communities for Aboriginal Australians within their ancestral country ;
35-468: The areas, or relocated under various Government acts. The Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 allowed Aboriginal councils to make and enforce by-laws on their land. Originally it only applied to the Bidyadanga and Bardi communities, but was subsequently extended to others. In the 1980s and 1990s, effort was made to support indigenous communities. In 2014 and 2015 the support of some of
42-460: The communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of Australia . 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
49-472: The communities was questioned in Western Australian and Australian political discussions. In 2015 rallies were held across Australia and the world to protest the withdrawal of government support of the communities. A group of Aboriginal protesters set up a camp on Heirisson Island , as "... a place of retreat for all Aboriginal persons who have been and will be forcibly removed by
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