Community services and amenities include a small school established in 1998,[11] a volunteer fire brigade and several sporting and social clubs.

One of Australia's earliest artifacts of European origin was found by a 13-year-old school boy on Dundee Beach in 2010.

[citation needed] However this claim has been disputed by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory following analysis of sand inside the gun's barrel dating it closer to 1750.

The museum instead speculated it was likely dropped overboard by Makassan traders who were known to visit the area to harvest Sea cucumber and trade with local Aboriginal peoples.

[7][6][1] The possibility of Dundee Beach and adjoining localities being included in an expanded Coomalie Shire was discussed in 2009 without any decisive outcome.