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 as a not-for-profit company, supported by the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs, with the AHL board reporting to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. It has run primary, secondary, and tertiary education hostels, employment and training hostels, hostels for single parents and their children, aged care hostels, transient and medical hostels for people from regional areas attending appointments in cities and towns, alcoholic rehabilitation hostels, and hostels for people experiencing homelessness. It has also run at least one children’s home/hostel for state wards (the Wirraminna Hostel in Essendon, Melbourne), and 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. In 2026 Aboriginal Hostels Limited continues to operate.