Daguragu, Northern Territory
Daguragu is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin and located about south-west of the municipal seat in Katherine.
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the Aboriginal community located within its boundaries where in 1974, then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam presented the title to the land granted to the Gurindji people following the events of the Wave Hill walk-off in 1966. As of 2020, it has an area of.
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Daguragu had a population of 242 people of which 233 were described as “ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples.”
Dagurgu is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the Victoria Daly Region.
