ABOUT

Nungaroo is a small to medium sized Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) based in the town of Quirindi in the Liverpool Plains Shire area of the mid-northern tablelands in New South Wales. It has nominally over 460 members and an asset base of just over $2,000,000. It is a quiet rural community, modestly prosperous, but with the usual legacy of social issues concerning Indigenous people in this country; lower socio- economic factors, poorer health and educational profiles and residual prejudice.

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The Caroona / Walhallow community was once a 'mission' and remains a significant centre for Indigenous residents, and has its own LALC, even though there are fewer than 200 people in total now living there. A large number of previous residents have moved to Quirindi for better access to work, schools and services. Werris Creek Township has a substantial number of Indigenous residents. In February 1984 at a meeting called for the specific purpose of forming the Quirindi, Werris Creek Local Aboriginal Land Council.

 

  

The name was later changed to Nungaroo Local Aboriginal Land Council.   Nungaroo originally began in Werris Creek and was only moved to Quirindi because office accommodation was available. The topography of the town shows why this was a place where the Aboriginal people have always gathered.

 

Quirindi is the major urban centre in the Liverpool Plains Shire Council. The Shire was created in 2004 by the amalgamation of Quirindi Shire with parts of Parry, Gunnedah and Murrurundi Shires.