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Doomadgee

Community profile

Doomadgee is a community in the northwest of Queensland, around 630 kilometres by road to Mount Isa, and 140 kilometres east of the Northern Territory border.

For more information, see North Queensland Regional Office.

Doomadgee is a community in the northwest of Queensland, around 630 kilometres by road to Mount Isa, and 140 kilometres east of the Northern Territory border.

For more information, see North Queensland Regional Office.

Traditional owners

Gangalidda and the Waanyi people

Languages

English

Population

1,387

89.2% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ABS 2021 Census)

Stories from Doomadgee

On a brown and yellow background there are two circles each containing the photo of a man. The first photo includes a man in a blue shirt and black cap and the second photos includes a man in a black hat and black t-shirt with colourful dot painting.

Online Schooling the Doomadgee Way

26 May 2020

Doomadgee State School in North West Queensland has a creative answer to keeping students learning and engaged during COVID-19.
Elijah Douglas and Rachel O’Connor at the United Nations Headquarters in New York

Meeting in New York to support Indigenous cultures

26 August 2016

Elijah Douglas from Doomadgee recently travelled to New York city to share his experience of teaching and preserving his Aboriginal culture with other Indigenous leaders from around the world at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Two Indigenous men in a radio studio.

The Doomadgee DJ getting kids to school

28 April 2015

Doomadgee DJ Sai Matainavora’s breakfast show Respected Doomadgee’s Education is inspiring kids to go to school and winning awards while he’s at it.
Elijah Douglas, holding his didgeridoo, sits in front of a wall of remembrance.

Elijah Douglas, from Doomadgee to Gallipoli

04 November 2014

At 17, Elijah Douglas has already travelled from Doomadgee to Gallipoli. He has set himself goals to get a good education before returning to his community with a qualification to work with his people.