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Making Informed Choices About Using DNA

A Resource for People with Experience of Adoption and/or Out-of-Home Care

Apology to Victorians who experienced historical abuse and neglect as children in institutional care

This is a copy of the text of the speech given by Premier Jacinta Allan at the Apology to Victorians who experienced historical abuse and neglect as children in institutional care on 8 February 2024.

Commonwealth Department of Social Services: Benefits available to girls in homes for unmarried mothers

This is a copy of a pamphlet produced by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services between around 1969 and around 1972 to provide information to ‘girls’ in Homes for unmarried mothers. It appears to be from the State of Queensland as it only refers to Homes and locations in that state. This pamphlet was provided…

Photographs from the Lysterfield Boys’ Farm site

This document contains photographs of the site of the Lysterfield Boys’ Farm, also known as the Church of England Boys’ Society Training Farm, as well as signage at the site. The photographs of the site show a small section of wall and a domed-top well, which are all that remain of the farm house. The…

List of Northern Territory evacuees, World War II (1942)

This is a digitised version of a file held by the National Archives of Australia.

Umbakumba. Native Settlement, Groote Eylandt (F H Grey) – Northern Territory [3cm] (1952 – 1958)

This is a digitised version of a file held by the National Archives of Australia.

Lutheran Missions – The Finke River Mission (1) Hermannsburg (2) Haasts Bluff (3) Areyonga. Part 2 (1935 – 1953)

This is a digitised version of a file held by the National Archives of Australia.

Methodist Overseas Mission, Yirrkala Mission. (1933 – 1952)

This is a digitised version of a file held by the National Archives of Australia.

Milingimbi Mission Review Reports, etc. Northern Territory [176 pp] (1927 – 1952)

This is a digitised version of a file held by the National Archives of Australia.