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| Kimberley Electorate Profile | |
| | x x Josie Farrer is a Kija woman born in Moola Bulla station, near Halls Creek in the Kimberley Region. She has lived in Halls Creek since 1955. Josie works hard to give her community more opportunities to connect with Indigenous culture, law and land in a meaningful way. Josie has served as a Director with the Kimberley Land Council, and as a Councillor on the Shire of Halls Creek for 16 years, including seven years as the Shire President. She is also a member and active volunteer/artist of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre. Josie has served on a number of regional boards and on both state and federal committees, including seven years as the deputy, and occasionally holding the role of acting Chair of the Kimberley Development Commission. Contact Details and Speeches Biography | | Kimberley Electorate Map xx  (Click map for larger image) | |
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| | About the Kimberley Electorate | | |
| Area (km2) 419,078; Number of Electors: 16,867 (9 March 2015) Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information. Nomenclature: Named after the Kimberley District. Following discovery of the district by Alexander Forrest in 1879 it was decided to open the new district for settlement. The Governor, Sir William Robinson, sent copies of suggested land regulations to the Earl of Kimberley, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and in his dispatch said that it was proposed that the new country should be called the Kimberley District. This name was approved by the Earl of Kimberley in a telegram dated 26 August 1880 Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places. Suburbs: Bilingurr, Broome, Cable Beach, Camballin, Cambridge Gulf, Dampier Peninsula, Derby, Djugun, Drysdale River, Durack, Eighty Mile Beach, Fitzroy Crossing, Geegully Creek, Gibb, Gingerah, Halls Creek, Kalumburu, Kimbolton, King Leopold Ranges, Kununurra, Lagrange, Lake Argyle, McBeath, Meda, Minyirr, Mitchell Plateau, Mt Hardman, Mueller Ranges, Oombulgurri, Ord River, Purnululu, Roebuck, St George Ranges, Sturt Creek, Tanami, Warmun, Waterbank, Willare and Wyndham. * = Suburb/Town split between more than one District. Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information. Special Petition from the Kimberley Electorate to the Parliament of Western Australia Local Governments within District Shire of Broome Shire of Derby-West Kimberley Shire of Halls Creek Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley Schools in the Kimberley Electorate Government: Bayulu Remote Community School Broome North Primary School Broome Primary School Broome Senior High School Cable Beach Primary School Dawul Remote Community School Derby District High School Djugerari Remote Community High School East Kimberley College Fitzroy Valley District High school Halls Creek District High School Jungdranung Remote Community School Kalumburu Remote Community School Kimberley School of the Air La Grange Remote Community School Looma Remote Community school Muludja Remote Community school Ngalapita Remote Community School One Arm Point Remote Community school Roebuck Primary School Wananami Remote Community school Wangkatjungka Remote Community school Wyndham District High school Others: Birlirr Ngawiyiwu Catholic School Christ the King Catholic School Holy Rosary School John Pujajangka Piyirn School Kulkarriya Comunity School Kururrungku Catholic Education Centre Luurnpa Catholic School Ngalangangpum School Nyikina Mangala Community School Purnululu Aboriginal Independent Community School Sacred Heart School St Joseph's School/Kununurra St Joseph's School/Wyndham St Mary's College Warlawurru Catholic School Wulungarra School Yakanarra Community School Yiramalay / Wesley Studio School Yiyili Aboriginal Community School | | Local Newspapers: Kimberley Echo Broome Advertiser Halls Creek Herald Pilbara News North West Telegraph Books about Kimberley: John Thompson-Gray: Love, Luck and Larceny (2015) Kevin Moran: Sand and stone - Pigeon (Hesperian Press, 2011) Kevin Moran: Sand and stone - cattle and conflict (Hesperian Press, 2010) Hugh Edwards: Kimberley - dreaming to diamonds (251p. Hugh Edwards, 1991) Hugh Edwards: Port of pearls - a history of Broome (196p. Rigby, 1983) Remi Balagai: This is your place - Beagle Bay mission 1890-1990, birthplace and cradle of the Catholic presence in the Kimberley (166p. Pallottine Centre, 2001) Roger Garwood: Broome - landscapes and people (98p. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1983) John Bailey: The white divers of Broome - the true story of a fatal experiment (301p. Pan McMillan, 2001) Barney Barnes: Raparapa - stories of the Fitzroy River drover (288p. Magabala Books, 2011) Cathie Clement: Old Halls Creek, a town remembered (68p. National Heritage, 2000) Norma Wainwright: Kununurra, from dreams to reality (421p. Norma Wainwright, 2006) Rod Dickson: The price of a pearl (191p. Hesperian Press, 2002) Susan Sickert: Beyond the lattice, Broome's early years (199p. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003) Rosemary Hemphill: The master pearler's daughter - memories of my Broome childhood (270p. Pan MacMillan, 2004) L Burges: Pioneers of Nor'-West Australia, pastoral and pearling (25p. Hesperian Press, 2008) Tim Willing: Under a regent moon - a historical account of pioneer pastoralists Joseph Bradshaw and Aeneas Gunn at Marigui Settlement, Prince Regent River, Kimberley, Western Australia, 1891-1892 (66p. Dept of Conservation and Land Management, 2002) James Battye: The history of the North West of Australia - embracing Kimberley, Gascoyne and Murchison districts (318p. Jones, 1915) Hamlet Cornish: Pioneering in the Kimberleys (25p. Hesperian Press, 2011) Bill Withers: Frontier dreaming - a light hearted look at the birth of a Kimberley frontier town (160p. W R Withers, 1997) W A Beattie: Australia's North-West challenge (183p. Kimberley Publishing, 1980) Mary Jebb: Blood, sweat and welfare, a history of white bosses and Aboriginal pastoral workers (364p. UWA Press, 2002) Peter Bridge: Russian Jack (134p. Hesperian Press, 2002) Ken Mellowship: Wyndham, with a ton of salt (49p. Hesperian Press, 2004) Janet Holman: Legend of the Kimberley - the life and stories of Lawson Holman, flying doctor and flying surgeon (170p. Hesperian Press, 2005) Lucy Marshall: Reflections of a Kimberley woman (Madjulla, 2004) Howard Pedersen: Jandamarra and the Bunuba resistance (216p. Magabala Books, 1995) R Pilmer: Northern patrol, an Australian saga (179p. Hesperian Press, 1996) Magdalene Williams: Ngay Janijirr ngank (This is my word) (121p. Magabala Books, 1999) W Charnley: Pigeon (27p. Hesperian Press, 2010) W Charnley: The tragic pearl (24p. Hesperian Press, 2010) W Charnley:The McGuire mystery - killers of the Kimberley coast (18p. Hesperian Press, 2010) | |
| | 2017 Election Result | | |
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Successive Members for the Kimberley District |
 Francis Connor | Constituency created under Redistribution of Seats 1903
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