Sunday Island Mission was re-established by the United Aborigines Mission after a brief period at Wotjulum (1934-1937). It returned to the original site of the Sunday Island Mission (1899-1934). Children at Sunday Island were under the guardianship of the heads of the departments responsible for Aboriginal welfare until 1963. Sunday Island Mission closed in 1964….
Wotjulum, near Yampi, was established by the United Aborigines Mission in 1934, with people transferred from Sunday Island. In 1937 Wotjulum closed and the mission returned to Sunday Island. Children at Wotjulum were under the guardianship of the heads of the departments responsible for Aboriginal welfare. In 1951, the Presbyterian Church opened a mission on…
Wotjulum, near Yampi, was established as a mission station by the Presbyterian Church in 1951, with people transferred from Kunmunya Station and the government station at Munja. Children at Wotjulum were under the guardianship of the Commissioners responsible for Aboriginal welfare. Wotjulum closed in 1956 and residents were transferred to Mowanjum, near Derby. Wotjulum, near…
Port George IV Mission began in 1912 at Walcott Inlet in the west Kimberleys, but by 1913 was located at Port George IV. It was run by the Presbyterian Church. Children living on the mission were under the guardianship of the head of the departments responsible for Aboriginal welfare, but they lived with their families….
The Benedictine Missionary Sisters were a group of Catholic religious women who ran what was known as St Joseph’s Native School and Orphanage, New Norcia from 1904 to 1974. The Benedictine Missionary Sisters were encouraged, according to Massam (2008, p.205) to value ‘poverty, hard manual work, separation from family, obedience to a superior, and dedication…
Ellensbrook Farm Home, near Busselton, was a government-run ‘farm home’ established in 1899 by the Aborigines Department. Up to 11 Aboriginal women and children were admitted for education and training. It closed in 1917. Ellensbrook Farm Home, on the south-west coast, was a ‘domestic-scale’ farm home for Aboriginal children and women. There is some doubt…
Adventist Support is an organisation for people who wish to register a complaint or discuss their experiences in institutions run by the Western Australian Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was founded in February 2000. In 2006 its name changed to Safe Place Services, and in 2017 the name was again changed to AdSafe,…
The Mary MacKillop Centre, South Perth is the Western Australian centre of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. In Western Australia, the Sisters ran the St Joseph’s Preventorium in Kellerberrin. The Mary MacKillop Centre holds a small collection of records relating to St Joseph’s Preventorium.
The Phoebe Holmes Hostel in Subiaco was run by the Slow Learning Children’s Group from 1961 as accommodation for young people with developmental disabilities.
The Charities’ Consultation Committee seems to have been formed as a means of coordinating (and possibly regulating) charitable activities. It was possibly a pre-cursor to the Lotteries Commission.
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