(WARAKURNA)
25° 01' 59" S 128° 18' 14" E
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Km from Perth |
1761 |
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Population |
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Rainfall |
253mm (217.2) |
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Max Temp |
29.3C (44.5) |
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Min Temp |
15.7C (-1.6) |
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Autogas |
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Telecentre |
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Roadhouse 08 8956 7344
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Named (not surprisingly) after Ernest Giles. This was originally established as a weather recording station by Len Beadell and the ‘Gunbarrel Road Construction Party.’ His book ‘Too Long in the Bush’ is a fascinating insight into the development of bush ‘highways’.
Ernest Giles died at the age of 62 and was buried in the Coolgardie cemetery.
The aboriginal community as Warakurna was featured in the Midnight Oil song of the same name: |
Len Beadell cartoon at Giles
Photo (C) gladysclancy
Warakurna
There is enough for everyone
In Redfern as there is in Alice
This is not the Buckingham palace
This the crown land
This is the brown land
This is not our land
Some folks live in water tanks
Some folks live in red brick flats
There is enough, the law is carved in granite
Its been shaped by wind and rain
White law could be wrong
Black law could be strong
Warakurna, cars will roll
Don't drink by the water hole
Court fines on the shop front wall
Beat the grog and save your soul
Some people laugh, some never learn
This land must change or land must burn
Some people sleep, some people yearn
This land must change or land must burn
Diesel and dust is what we breathe
This land don't change and we don't leave
Some people live, some never die
This land don't change this land must lie
Some people leave, always return
This land must change or land must burn
Warakurna, camels roam
Fires are warm and dogs are cold
Not since Lassiter was here
Black man's got a lot to fear
Some people laugh, some never learn
This land must change or land must burn
Some people leave, always return
This land must change or land must burn
(c) Midnight oil
