The Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation is the organisation that ran the Boomerang Youth Hostel after it was transferred from the Yanay Yanma Aboriginal Corporation in 2010.
The Boomerang Youth Hostel, Geraldton began in 1979 as accommodation for Aboriginal youth attending the Geraldton Technical School. By 2005, the hostel accommodated up to 20 Aboriginal youth on a short-term basis. The youth hostel closed in 2011 and reopened in 2012 for people of all ages. The Boomerang Youth Hostel was called the Aboriginal…
The Aboriginal Boomerang Council Inc was established on 30 August 1977. From 1979, for an unknown period, the Council ran the Aboriginal Boomerang Council Youth Hostel in Geraldton. The Council was deregistered on 17 February 1997 and the whereabouts of records is unknown.
A Government Industrial School was established in 1893 at Claisebrook, and moved to Subiaco in 1897. It was originally for girls, and was then used for older children and for the ‘temporary reception’ of children awaiting other placements. By 1902 it was called the ‘Government Industrial School and Receiving Depot’ and by 1907 it was…
The Women’s Home in Fremantle was established by the government as a continuation of the Female Home (Women’s Home, Poor House) in Perth. Children and women who were intellectually disabled, destitute or pregnant and destitute, were moved from Perth into the buildings that had previously been the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum. It seems that very few…
The Female Home, or Poor House, began in 1851, and was then named the ‘Servants’ Home’. From 1854, destitute or orphaned children under 10 years of age were admitted. It was first run by the Ladies’ Friendly Society, but by the mid-1850s was government-run. From 1902, children were instead admitted to the Government Industrial School…
Wanslea Hostel was established in North Perth (Mt Lawley) in 1943 by the Women’s Australian National Service (WANS) for young children who could not live at home due to parental sickness or war-related absence. It closed in 1946 and was replaced by a larger children’s Home, Wanslea (Cottesloe), in January 1947. Wanslea Hostel was established…
Wanslea Family Services was established as the Wanslea Hostel Committee in 1946 and incorporated as Wanslea Family Services Inc in 1948. It ran the Wanslea Children’s Home in Cottesloe and in 2013 offered foster care and other family support services.
The Women’s Australian National Service (WANS) was established in Western Australia in 1941. From 1943 to 1946 it ran ‘Wanslea Hostel’, a Home for children who could not live with family due to parental illness or wartime absence. The Women’s Australian National Service (WANS) was established in Australia in 1939 and in Western Australia in…
Centrecare has been the the Catholic social services agency of the Archdiocese of Perth since 1977. Various programs have, and do, run under its umbrella. Centrecare has been involved in out of home ‘care’ but the organisation did not have a role in child migration, nor does it hold records relating to child migration. Centrecare…
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