page_title: Bagot Community
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bagot Community / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Notice outside Bagot Aboriginal Reserve, now known as Bagot Community, in Darwin, Northern, Territory, Australia.
context_page_description: Bagot Community is an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia located in Ludmilla, a northern suburb of the city of Darwin. It was established in 1938 as the Bagot Aboriginal Reserve, when the Aboriginal residents were moved from the Kahlin Compound, it was also sometimes referred to as the Bagot Road Aboriginal Reserve.
  In 1979 it became a self-governing community, administered by an Aboriginal Community Council and known as the Bagot Aboriginal Community, but signposted and commonly known as the Bagot Community.
context_section_description: The Bagot Aboriginal Reserve was established in 1938 (probably under the Aboriginals Ordinance 1918, which allowed for Aboriginal reserves in the NT), when all Aboriginal residents were moved from the Kahlin Compound. The Retta Dixon Home was located at the reserve.
  The origins of the reserve's name has not been recorded by the Northern Territory Place Names Committee.
  In 1954, 22 boys from the reserve travelled to Toowoomba to perform a corroboree for Queen Elizabeth II.
  In the late 1970s the Reserve was handed over to Aboriginal custodians; thereafter it was known as the Bagot Aboriginal Community, but commonly referred to as the Bagot Community.
caption: Notice outside Bagot Aboriginal Reserve c.1940
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