Gadjerong

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The Gadjerong are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory, most of whom now live in northeastern Western Australia.

Northern Territory federal territory of Australia

The Northern Territory is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, and Queensland to the east. To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands. The NT covers 1,349,129 square kilometres (520,902 sq mi), making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 246,700, making it the least-populous of Australia's eight states and major territories, with fewer than half as many people as Tasmania.

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Language

Geoffrey O'Grady classified their language, Gajirrabeng or Gajirrawoong, as one of two Mirriwongic languages, the other being Miriwoong. [1] More recent work has established it as a member of the Jarrkan group. [2] Gajirrabeng is at severe risk of extinction, with no more than perhaps 2 or 3 native speakers by 2013. [1] Frances Kofod compiled a dictionary of the language in 2007. [3]

Geoffrey O'Grady was a professor Emeritus of linguistics whose primary field of specialization was Australian Aboriginal languages.

Gajirrabeng is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kimberley region, today known by only three or four fluent speakers.

Miriwoong language language

Miriwoong (Miriwung) is an Australian Indigenous language which today has fewer than 20 fluent speakers, most of whom live in or near Kununurra in Western Australia. All of the fluent speakers are elderly and the Miriwoong language is considered to be critically endangered. However, younger generations tend to be familiar with a lot of Miriwoong vocabulary which they use when speaking Kimberley Kriol or Aboriginal English.

Country

Gadjerong lands encompased 800 square miles (2,100 km2) in Norman Tindale's reckoning. They ran westwards along the rich ecosystems of mangrove flat, waterholes, creeks and waterfalls [4] along the coastal area from the mouth of the Fitzmaurice River as far as point where the Keep River flows out into the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. Their inland extension, taking in also at Legune, went as far as the vicinity of Border Springs. They also frequented the offshore area of Quoin Island, and further north, Clump Island, and those off the mouth of Keyling Inlet. [5]

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

Norman Barnett Tindale AO was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

Fitzmaurice River river in Australia

The Fitzmaurice River is a river in Australia's Northern Territory.

Keep River river in Australia

The Keep River is a river, located in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of Western Australia and the Northern Territory in Australia.

History

The implementation of the Ord River Irrigation scheme had a major impact on the Gadjerong and other tribes of the east Kimberley area. They were dispossessed of parts of their traditional tribal land and many sacred sites were destroyed. [6] In consequence they moved to the Aboriginal reserve in Kununurra. The extension of the principle of equal pay for equal work in 1969 to Aborigines likewise had a negative impact on peoples like the Gadjerong in the Kimberley region and the Northern Territory since the managers of pastoral leases evicted the majority of indigenous peoples on the land where they lived, with the collateral loss of employment and its substitution by welfare subsidies. [6]

Ord River river in Western Australia, Australia

The Ord River is a 320-kilometre (200 mi) long river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The river's catchment covers 46,100 square kilometres (17,799 sq mi).

Kununurra, Western Australia Town in Western Australia

Kununurra is a town in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley Region approximately 37 kilometres (23 mi) from the border with the Northern Territory. Kununurra was initiated to service the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.

Gender pay gap in Australia looks at the persistence of a gender pay gap in Australia. In Australia, the principle of "equal pay for equal work" was introduced in 1969. Anti-discrimination on the basis of sex was legislated in 1984.

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    Citations

    1. 1 2 McGregor 2013, p. 40.
    2. ↑ Hobson 2010, p. 146.
    3. ↑ Hobson 2010, p. 147.
    4. ↑ McWilliam 2006, p. 77-78.
    5. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 228.
    6. 1 2 Howitt 2002, p. 249.

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