Document Type
Book
Publisher
Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education
Place of Publication
Perth, Western Australia
School
Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education
Abstract
Moora town was established in 1875, when the railway from Midland Junction to Walkaway was built. There had always been Aborigines in the surrounding districts, and as land was taken up for farming, a number of them were employed as farmhands and domestics.
The town is the regional centre for the North Midlands, a subdivision of the Northern Agricultural Statistical Division of Western Australia. As such, it was developed to service the agricultural hinterland. The Northern Agricultural Statistical Division has a total population of 42,804 people (23,044 males and 19,766 females) of whom 1,828 or 4.6% are Aboriginal (1,003 males and 825 females). Moora township has a total population of 1,409 people (735 males and 634 females) of whom 289 or 20.5% are Aboriginal ( 155 males and 134 females). Thus the Aboriginal population of Moora town is disproportionate for the region, and forms a sizeable minority within the town...
Comments
Tilbrook, L. (1977). Moora: Aboriginal children in a wheatbelt town. Perth, Australia: Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this document may contain references to people who have died.