Orphanages, children's homes and other residences open in the 1950s
- 1830s
- 1840s
- 1850s
- 1860s
- 1870s
- 1880s
- 1890s
- 1900s
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
1950s
- Methodist Overseas Mission (1830? - 1980?)
- Australian Board of Missions (1850 - )
- Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission (1877 - 1982)
- Finke River Mission (1877 - )
- Jesuit Mission (1882 - )
- Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (1904 - )
- Aborigines Inland Mission (1905 - 1998)
- Roper River Mission (1908 - 1988)
- Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (1908 - )
- Bathurst Island Mission (1912 - 1970)
- Australian Inland Mission (1912 - 1977)
- Goulburn Island Mission (1916 - )
- Church Missionary Society, Australia (1916 - )
- Areyonga (1920s - )
- Milingimbi Mission (1923 - )
- Oenpelli Mission (1925 - 1975)
- Australian Inland Mission Hostel (1926 - 1961)
- Methodist Inland Mission (1926 - 1977)
- Channel Island Leprosarium (1931 - 1955)
- Yirrkala Mission (1935 - )
- Ernabella Mission, South Australia (1937 - 1981)
- Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (1938 - 1983?)
- Umbakumba (1938 - )
- Wadeye (1939 - 1975)
- Croker Island Mission (1940 - 1966)
- Haasts Bluff (1940s - 1959)
- Our Lady of Victories Mission (1941 - 1968)
- St John's Hostel (1941 - 1970s)
- Elcho Island Mission (1942 - 1974?)
- Arltunga Mission (1942 - 1953)
- Angurugu (1943 - 1975?)
- St Francis Xavier Mission, Western Australia (1944 - 1977)
- Griffiths House (1945 - ?)
- Australian Baptist Home Mission (c. 1945 - 1978)
- Phillip Creek Mission (1945 - 1956)
- Yuendumu (1946 - 1976)
- Retta Dixon Home (1946 - 1982)
- St Mary's Home for Children (1947 - 1975?)
- Numbulwar Mission (1952 - 1978)
- Ltyentye Apurte (1953 - 1977)
- Warrabri (1954 - )
- East Arm Leprosarium (1955 - 1982)
- Fannie Bay Receiving Home (1956 - 1957)
- Nauiyu (1957 - 1977)
- Receiving Home, Darwin (1957 - 1961)
- Papunya (c. 1958 - )
