Patjarr Community

Patjarr (also known as Karilywara) is a small Aboriginal community, located near the Clutterbuck Hills between Lake Cobb and Lake Newell, 243 kilometres by road north west of Warburton[2] in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia.

[3] While no further demographic details are available from the 2011 census, 84% of residents in 2006 identified themselves as being of Indigenous descent.

[5] At the time of the 2006 Census, the Indigenous population profile of Patjarr was skewed, with a sex ratio of 1.0 male per 2.2 females.

[4] The Pintupi began returning to their homelands near Patjarr in 1979 with a view to setting up a permanent outstation.

[5] Native title was determined to exist in 2005, as part of the Stanley Mervyn, Adrian Young, and Livingston West and Ors, on behalf of the Peoples of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands v Western Australia and Ors claim.