Browse Categories - P

List of Categories

Peak Body
Peak Bodies are organisations, often formed out of grass roots activism or interest in a particular issue, which act as a representative voice for the people and or groups who are their members.
Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2006 - )
Philanthropist
A philanthropist is a person who engages in philanthropic (charitable) activities through the contribution of their time, money, or other resources.
Tooth, Leslie Howard (1879 - 1931), Philanthropist
Woodcraft, Richard Francis (c. 1845 - 1908), Philanthropist
Politician
A politician is a person who is, or has been, elected to a government office.
Dawson, Andrew (1863 - 1910), Politician
Murray, Andrew (1947 - ), Politician
Presbyterian
A person or organisation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
Blackheath Home, Oxley (c. 1924 - 1963)
David Henry Transitional Lodge (1975 - 1978)
Dowdle Family Group Home (c. 1963 - 1993)
Heytesbury Family Group Home (1968 - 2011)
Holland Park Family Group Home (1964 - )
Industrial School, Mapoon Mission Station (1901 - 1963)
Jellicoe Street Family Group Home (1967 - 1994)
Pallarenda Family Group Home (1979 - )
Peirson Memorial Trust (1947 - )
Peirson Memorial Trust Home, Bundaberg (1983 - c. 1990)
Redcliff Home, Goodwood (1955 - c. 1990)
Specht Family Group Home (1969 - 2000)
Treacher Family Group Home (1965 - 1995)
W. R. Black Home (1928 - 1965)
Protestant
A person or organisation affiliated with any one of the Protestant Churches. With child welfare, services were often clustered under the umbrella terms of Protestant and Catholic.
Alexandra Cottage (1960 - 1993)
Anglican Children's Home (1983 - )
Beulah Home (1971 - 1974)
Bindari Lodge (1971 - 1995)
Enoggera Boys' Home (1906 - 1978)
Female Refuge and Infants Home (1870 - 1919)
The Friary (1966 - 1981)
Home of the Good Shepherd, Nundah (1893 - c. 1933)
Illoura Family Group Home (1975 - 1990)
Industrial School for Girls, Clayfield (1903 - 1920)
Industrial School, Yarrabah Mission Station (1914 - )
Kunara Family Group Home (1969 - 1989)
Morris House (1975 - 1983)
Society of St Francis Records, 1953-1978 (1953 - 1978), State Library of Queensland
St George's Home, Rockhampton
St Mary's Home, Toowong (1894 - 1991)
Talera Lodge (1977 - 1988)
Tufnell Home
Wahroonga Family Group Home (1974 - )
Wongabeena Family Group Home (1970 - 1989)
Public Servant
A public servant is a person who works for the government, for example in a state, territory or federal department, but who hired, rather than elected, to that position.
Atherton, Dr Richard Aubrey, Public Servant and Superintendent
Bouchard, Jessie W, Public Servant
Ferguson, George Andrew (1872 - 1933), Public Servant
Horrocks, Charles Colville (1844 - 1896), Public Servant
Smith, Eveline A, Public Servant
Wilson, Hannah E, Public Servant