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Lombadina
Lombadina is a medium-sized Aboriginal community on the north-western coast of Western Australia on Cape Leveque, north of Broome in the Kimberley region. The name is derived from the Aboriginal word, "Lollmardinard". The community is inhabited by the Bardi people. Lombadina is part of a single urban area that incorporates Djarindjin and Lombadina. At the 2016 Census, this single urban area had a total population of 397, including 312 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Catholic mission was established with the help of Thomas Puertollano, a Filipino from Manila, in 191011. In 1916, to avoid it being taken over by the government of Western Australia, the land was bought by an Irishman, the brother of the controversial Redemptorist priest, John Creagh. Native title The community is located within the determined Bardi Jawi (WAD49/1998) native title claim area. Education Children of school age at Lombadina attend the Lombadina-Djarindjin Catholic Primary Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djarindjin
Djarindjin is a medium-sized Aboriginal community located north of Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Broome. It is within the traditional lands of the Bardi and Jawi peoples. Location Djarindjin is located on the west coast of the northern Dampier Peninsula sub-region, north of Broome. Djarindjin is part of a single urban area that incorporates the Lombadina Aboriginal community and the Lombadina Mission. At the 2016 Census, this single urban area had a total population of 397, including 312 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The township is approximately due west of Cape Leveque Road The Cape Leveque Road is a regional Western Australian road that runs through pindan woodland for between Broome and Cape Leveque on the Dampier Peninsula. The southernmost section was narrow-sealed, the northernmost section (between south .... Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation maintains a very large land holding surrounding the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Creagh
John Creagh (Thomondgate, Limerick, Ireland; 1870 – Wellington, New Zealand; 1947) was an Irish Redemptorist priest. Creagh is best known for, firstly, delivering antisemitic speeches in 1904 responsible for inciting riots against the small Jewish community in Limerick, as well as, secondly, his work as a Catholic missionary in the Kimberley region of Western Australia between 1916 and 1922. Limerick boycott Creagh played a significant role in launching the “Limerick boycott” of 1904–06, in which many non-Jews economically boycotted, on an antisemitic basis, the small Jewish community in Limerick. The boycott was accompanied by antisemitic assaults and intimidation, and caused some Jews to leave the city. The boycott and associated events are sometimes referred to as the "Limerick pogrom" (a name derived, in part, from the Eastern European origins of many Jews in Limerick). There had been a community of Irish Jews in Limerick City as early as 1790. A small number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |