[4] At the 2016 census, Warakurna had a population of 268, including 237 who identified as Aboriginal Australians, most of whom speak Ngaanyatjarra at home.

[5] In the early 1970s several factors, including the availability of government funding for outstations, easier road access, and over-crowding at Docker River (Kaltukatjara) settlement and Warburton Mission, all combined to make the location of Giles Weather Station ideal for a new community.

It also has a community hall, women's centre, health clinic, football oval, basketball court and 25-metre indoor swimming pool.

[7] The first Indigenous-run police station in Western Australia is at Warakurna, set up some years ago and already showing some positive effects.

Filmmaker Cornel Ozies, who made a documentary about the station, called Our Law and shown at the 2020 Sydney Film Festival, puts the success of the program down to four things: "respect, understanding, communication, and education".