Aboriginal Shire of Doomadgee
- 17.916666666667138.81666666667Koordinaten: 17 ° 55 ' S, 138 ° 49' O The Aboriginal Shire of Doomadgee is a Local Government Area ( LGA) in the Australian state of Queensland. The area is 1828 km ² and has about 1300 inhabitants.
Geography
The Shire is located in the northeast of the state within the Burke Shire about 1700 km north- west of the capital Brisbane and 860 km north-east of Alice Springs. The greater part of the LGA is located inside the Burke Shire at the Nicholson River, a second part is a stretch of coastline on the Gulf of Carpentaria.
All sedentary inhabitants of the Shire live in Nicholson / New Doomadgee at the southeastern edge of the area.
History
1930 in Burketown founded a mission for living in the area Aborigines, who shortly thereafter about 100 km to the north-west to Doomadgee (then spelled Dumaji ) moved to the coast. After only four years, a cyclone destroyed the mission and she moved far to the inland to the Nicholson River, where the new Doomadgee was founded. In 2008 the territory was handed over to the north of the mission including the old strip of land on the coast of the self-management of Aboriginal and Aboriginal Local Government Area established.
Management
The Doomadgee Council has five members. The Mayor ( mayor) and four other Councillor shall be elected by all residents of the Shire. The LGA is not divided into electoral districts.