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Legislation

A legally binding statute of a parliament (usually State, Territory, or Federal).

Aborigines Act 1969, State of New South Wales

Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act (1918), State of New South Wales

Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1936, State of New South Wales

Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1940, State of New South Wales

Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1943, State of New South Wales

Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1963, State of New South Wales

Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (1909 - 1969), State of New South Wales

Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915, State of New South Wales

An Act to provide for the Care and Education of Infants who may be convicted of Felony or Misdemeanour (1849), Colony of New South Wales

Adoption Information Act 1990 (1990 - 2003)

Adoption of Children Act 1965 (1965 - 2003), State of New South Wales

Amendment to the Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 (1918), State of New South Wales

Child (Care and Protection) Amendment Act 1990, State of New South Wales

Child Welfare Act 1923, State of New South Wales

Child Welfare Act 1939 (1939 - 1987), State of New South Wales

Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987, State of New South Wales

Children (Community Service Orders) Amendment Act 1988, State of New South Wales

Children (Community Service Orders) Further Amendment Act 1988, State of New South Wales

Children's Protection Act 1892, Colony of New South Wales

Children's Protection Act 1902, State of New South Wales

Community Welfare Act 1987, State of New South Wales

Community Welfare Bill 1981, State of New South Wales

Deserted Wives and Children Act 1901 (1901 - 1964), State of New South Wales

Destitute Children Act 1866 (1866 - 1901), Colony of New South Wales

Infant Convicts Adoption Act 1901, State of New South Wales

Infant Protection Act 1904 (1904 - 1923), State of New South Wales

Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905, State of New South Wales

Orphan Schools Act 1826, Colony of New South Wales

Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act 1901, State of New South Wales

Reformatory Schools Act 1866 (1869 - 1901), Colony of New South Wales [30 Victoria, Act No. 4, 1866]

State Children Relief (Amendment) Act of 1896 (1896 - 1905)

State Children Relief Act 1881 (1881 - 1923), Colony of New South Wales

State Children Relief Act 1901, State of New South Wales

Lying-in Home

A lying-in home was an institution that provided a place for women to live during their pregnancy. Although they were sometimes used by women to rest during pregnancy, women who were destitute or unmarried were expected to do physical work for their keep, often in laundries.

Belhaven Home for Mothers and Babies (1942 - 1948)

Benevolent Asylum (1821 - 1901)

Bethesda Home for Waiting Mothers (c. 1904 - c. 1976)

Cicada Home I, Croydon (1911 - 1919)

Cicada Home II, Croydon (1919 - 1930s)

Corelli (1919 - ?)

Eastwood Home for Mothers and Babies (1915 - 1922)

Hillcrest Mothers' Hospital (1933 - 1977)

Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies (1913 - 1920)

Home for Mothers with Infants, Croydon (1909 - 1911?)

Home for Sick Infants, Paddington (1907 - 1913)

Hopeleigh Maternity Home (c. 1910 - 1956)

Maryville Mothers' Hospital (1924 - 1933)

Montrose (1920s - 2000s)

Newcastle Maternity and Rescue Home (1897 - 1924)

Our Lady of Mercy Home, Waitara (c. 1928 - 1977)

Renwick Hospital for Infants, Summer Hill (1920 - 1965)

Renwick Hospital for Infants, Thomas Street (1911 - 1920)

Santa Marina (1919 - ?)

Shaftesbury Home for Babies and Mothers (1914 - 1915)

St Anthony's Petersham (1922 - 1925)

St Margaret's Hospital (1894 - 1998)

Thirlmere Babies' Home (1907 - 1913)

Thomas Street Asylum (1904 - 1911)

Tresillian North Home (1927 - )

Tresillian Vaucluse (c. 1935 - 1968)

Tresillian Wollstonecraft (1940 - )

Waitara Foundling Home (1898 - 1927)