Billard Aboriginal Community (‘Billard’) is 2 kms from Beagle Bay Aboriginal Community and approximately 122 kms north of Broome on the Cape Leveque Road.

The Billard community is in the heart of Nyul Nyul country. The Nyul Nyul people are the traditional owners of the Central Dampier Peninsula. They are also the registered native title claimants of the land and waters in this area.

Billard is the home of the Victor family which is an extended family group comprising about 70 members. Stephen Victor Snr is the most senior member of the community.  He is also a senior cultural adviser on behalf of the Nyul Nyul people. His wife, Dorothy Victor is a Nykina woman from East Kimberley who came to Beagle Bay as a child of the ‘stolen generations’.

Billard is situated on spring country – Nirrumbuk – the home of the rainbow serpent. The outstation is approximately 14 hectares. It contains several areas of specific cultural significance.

The land comprising Billard Aboriginal Community is leased by Billard Aboriginal Corporation from the Aboriginal Lands Trust [ALT] (WA) for a 99 year period. Billard Aboriginal Corporation is a not-for-profit Aboriginal corporation with DGR status.

It takes about 15 minutes to walk from the Beagle Bay Community Store to Billard over the Billard Lagoon Causeway Road. In the wet season the road is only passable by foot.

*DIA = Department of Indigenous Affairs

Tasha Victor, Lotte Beckett and Mary Victor O’Reeri catching up in Annandale, NSW

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