The Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs was formed through the amalgamation of the Department of Community Services and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Family Services on 7 December 1989. A separate division of the Department was created called the Aboriginal and Islander Affairs Department to have a supportive rather than…
The Department of Family and Community Services superseded the Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs. The Department ran the Therapeutic Adolescent Residential Assessment Unit, The Outlook Training and Resource Centre, the John Oxley Youth Detention Centre and the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre It was renamed the Department of Families, Youth and Community…
The Department of Families was created on 17 February 2001. Previously known as the Department of Families, Youth and Community Care, following the State general elections on 17 Feb 2001, the Department’s title was changed to the Department of Families. The Department had responsibility for juvenile justice facilities. On 12 February 2004 the Families Department…
The Department of Families, Youth and Community Care was previously known as the Department of Family and Community Services. The department’s responsibilities included a range of services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, neglected or abused children, juveniles in conflict with the law, people with disabilities, older people, the homeless, disadvantaged, and families in…
The Child Safety Department was created in February 2004 when the Families Department (including the Child Protection Branch) was abolished and its functions transferred to two newly-created departments: Communities Department, and Child Safety Department. On 26 March 2009 the Child Safety Department (Child Protection Services) was abolished and its functions transferred to the Department of…
The Boys’ Home was established in April 1890 in the South Brisbane home of Mr and Mrs Thompson. It was run by a Committee of private citizens. In late 1897 it moved to a property named ‘Rowallan’ at 84 Kedron Park Road, Wooloowin. In 1906, under Canon EC Osborn, the home moved to a nine-acre…
The Communities Department was created on 12 February 2004. The Families Department was abolished and its functions transferred to two new departments; Communities Department and Child Safety Department. On 26 March 2009, the Communities Department absorbed the functions of the abolished Child Safety Department. Under Departmental Arrangements Notice (No. 1) 2012, the Department of Communities…
The Brisbane Servants’ Home, 166 Ann Street, Brisbane, was established by Lady Bowen and a group of private citizens in 1865 (including Mary Ann Douglas, wife of Legislative Assembly member John Douglas). It provided a home for single adult females who had migrated to Queensland and were awaiting employment as domestic servants. The building was…
The Royal Queensland Bush Children’s Health Scheme (BUSHkids) was founded in 1935 by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, to meet the health needs of children living in bush communities. Children were sent to seaside holiday homes for a period of six weeks. During this time they received medical and dental treatment if…
In 1927 Archbishop James Duhig approached the Ladies Committee of the Seamen’s Catholic Club and suggested the formation of a branch of the Catholic Daughters of Australia (CDA).The inaugural meeting of the Catholic Daughters of Australia, now known as the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) of Queensland, was held on the 10th September 1927. Their motto,…
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