Burringurrah Aboriginal Community
Burringurrah is a medium-sized Aboriginal community, located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Upper Gascoyne. In the, Burringurrah had a total population of 117, including 102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The 2021 census recorded 70 Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people in the area.The inselberg also once known as Mount Augustus is situated nearby.
History
The community is situated on a reserve that was excised from the Mount James pastoral lease. It was incorporated in 1999.The community store had to close in 2011 saying that the transient population made the business non-viable. The remote CMS had taken over the store in 2009 and had kept it running until April 2011 despite closing for a short while from seasonal flooding.
The 2011 floods had isolated the community for a few weeks and it was not until nearly a year later, in early 2012, that all basic services were returned to the town. The community store re-opened in 2025. before its re-opening, many residents traveled to Carnarvon, ten hours' drive away, for grocery shopping, as the much closer small corner shop near Mount Augustus National Park was prohibitively expensive. This caused issues with school attendance, as parents would take their children to Carnarvon for weeks at a time. It also caused malnutrition, as the lack of available grocery stores meant that the primary form of subsistance was hunting, predominantly meat-based, as foraging for seeds and bush tucker is much more labour-intensive.