Halls Creek, WA

ALLS CREEK IS two towns. One, the modern Halls Creek, lies on the Great Northern Highway – Highway One – and is a predominantly First Nations community. In the 2016 census almost 70 per cent of the population identified as Aboriginal. This is the Halls Creek that services the surrounding pastoral industry and the tourism needs of passing travellers making the long journey across the Kimberley from Kununurra to Derby and Broome. The other Halls Creek is a dry, unforgiving ghost town. In 1948 the original town was physically moved 15km to its present