This brochure was created by the South Australian Government to promote the Farm Apprenticeship Scheme 1913-14 to English boys.
This is a digital copy of a record held by the National Archives of Australia.
This is a digital copy of a record held by the National Archives of Australia.
This is a copy of an article from the Courier Mail.
This newspaper article reports on the decision by the Uniting Church to sell the property formerly known as W. R. Black Home.
This is a copy of a timeline produced in 2013, showing the administrative history of the BoysTown organisation. In 2016, the organisation changed its name to yourtown.
This is a transcript of The General Report on Condition and Progress of the Westbrook Reformatory for Boys, written by Superintendent of Westbrook Walter Richmond in 1910. It provides a brief history of the Reformatory, and descriptions of farming activities undertaken by the boys, the health of the boys, and their education and employment.
This is a copy of a document from Child and Family Services Ballarat. It is a historical timeline of the Ballarat Orphanage and its previous and subsequent names, beginning in 1865, going up to 1994. The last page is a list of Superintendents and Secretary’s at the institution, from 1865 up to 1989.
This is a copy of a document from 1974, outlining the early morning routine at the Institution for Boys Tamworth. It was published in the thesis of Peter Quinn (2004), and was taken from the Report of the Inquiry into the Death of Malcolm Charles Smith, 1989, part of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths…
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