Kimberley Electorate Profile (2021)

About the Kimberley Electorate

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Area (sq km): 536,571
Number of Electors: 15,735
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.

Origin of the Name:
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 and Towns within the electorate:
Bilingurr; Broome; Cable Beach; Camballin; Cambridge Gulf; Dampier Peninsula; Derby; Djugun; Drysdale River; Durack; Eighty Mile Beach; Fitzroy Crossing; Geegully Creek; Gibb; Gibson Desert North; Gingerah; Halls Creek; Jarlmadangah Burru; Kalumburu; Kimbolton; Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges ; Kundat Djaru; Kununurra; Kupartiya; 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; Wyndham
* = Suburb/Town split between more than one Electorate.
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.

• 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)

Statistical Profile of the Kimberley Electorate

• Kimberley Electorate Community profile .id demographic database
• Statistics for 2021 Election Boundaries (PDF)

Elections

Current Member

Successive Members for the Kimberley Electorate

Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats 1903

b = by-election
Source:
Black, David & Valerie Prescott. Election Statistics: Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, WA: Parliament of Western Australia Electoral Commission, 1997.
Parliament of Western Australia, Members (website) http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au