Bidyadanga, also known as La Grange, is the largest Aboriginal community in Western Australia, with a population of approximately 750 residents.

[3] The Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community La Grange (BACLG) was incorporated in 1975 as a not-for-profit organisation to administer government-funded programs.

[5] Located on Thangoo Station south of Broome, La Grange had been a government rations distribution post for Karajarri and Ngungamada people.

[6] In the 1950s, after two lay missionaries had started a school, Frankfurt anthropologists Helmut Petri and his wife Dr Gisela Odermann began to conduct fieldwork at La Grange.

Other missionaries joined them, and prayers, a collection of Bible stories, and an outline of kinship terms were published in the local languages.

[6] In 2002 and 2004 the Karajarri had their native title rights and interests recognised, over 31,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi) – about half the size of Tasmania – in the West Kimberley.

The wet season is sweltering and humid though generally dry, but there are occasional extremely heavy downpours from tropical cyclones or other closed depressions developing from the monsoon trough to the north.