Aboriginal Hostels Limited (AHL) was established in June 1973 to provide hostel accommodation and related services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. AHL was established by the Commonwealth Government as a not-for-profit company, with the AHL board reporting to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. It ran at least one children’s home/hostel for state wards – the Wirraminna Hostel in Essendon, Melbourne. AHL has likely provided accommodation to some state wards in its primary and secondary education hostels, including at the Merindoo Hostel in Gippsland (Victoria), Kirinari Hostel in Sydney, and the Nindee and Luprina Hostels in Adelaide. AHL has also provided funding to several other children’s homes and organisations accommodating state wards through it’s third-party funding program.
Aboriginal Hostels Limited has run primary, secondary, and tertiary education hostels, employment and training hostels, hostels for single parents and their children, hostels for adults and youth experiencing homelessness, aged care hostels, transient and medical hostels for people from regional areas attending appointments in cities and towns, and alcoholic rehabilitation hostels. In 2026 Aboriginal Hostels Limited continues to operate.