Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire
Located on Gangalidda and Waanyi country in northwest Queensland's Gulf Country, the Aboriginal Shire of Doomadgee consists of two disconnected areas of land: the inland locality of Doomadgee and the coastal locality of Gangalidda on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The shire, which was excised from and is surrounded by the Shire of Burke, is managed under a Deed of Grant in Trust under the Local Government (Community Government Areas) Act 2004.
The shire's name derives from Dumaji, a coastal sand dune in the Bayley Point Aboriginal reserve, where a Christian Brethren family established the Old Doomadgee Mission to house Gangalidda people living on the fringes of Burketown. After a cyclone destroyed the settlement in 1936, it was moved inland to a site on the Nicholson River, which became the "new Doomadgee."
The Doomagee Aboriginal Council, first elected in March 1985, became the trustees of the Doomadgee Aboriginal reserve, which included the sites of both missions, under a Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT) in May 1987. The Doomadgee Aboriginal Council became the Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council at the beginning of 2005. The majority of the residents are Gangalidda or Waanyi people, with some Gadawa, Lardil, Mingginda and Garawa within the shire's population.
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Shire_of_Doomadgee
