This is a black and white image of the Darling Babies’ Home at a mansion known as ‘Yarrayne’. It shows a large family home surrounded by gardens. The house has several gables, including one with windows for an upper-storey room. One of the ends of the house appears to be covered in ivy. This image…
The Adelaide City Mission was established in 1867, its principal aim being the “evangelisation of the neglected classes“. The Mission was involved in various charitable activities with Adelaide’s poor, and also organised religious activities such as gospel meetings (The Register, 20 July 1927). In 1926, the Adelaide City Mission opened the Aboriginal Women’s Home in the…
This is a black and white image of the entrance to Boys’ Town, Engadine. The photograph shows the driveway and front gates, which include signs which read ‘Boys Town’, ‘Father Dunlea’, and a sign behind the fence stating ‘Visitors Welcome’. Behind the gates, three or four buildings are visible situated among several large eucalyptus trees.
These records were created by the ACT Human Rights Commission during its audit of the Quamby Youth Detention Centre in 2005. Records contain a staff list, a Policy and Procedures Manual, a residents’ handbook and Code of Conduct, information for parents and guardians, and residents’ lists. Access Conditions Access to these records are restricted as…
The Human Rights Commission, ACT oversees issues of human rights and justice in the ACT, including ensuring that ACT government agencies are complying with human rights. As part of this work, it undertook an audit into the Quamby Youth Detention Centre in 2005.
This is a photograph of a dormitory at the Salvation Army Boys’ Home at Collie, Western Australia. It shows two long rows of steel-framed beds packed tightly together in a long, high ceilinged dormitory room. A side-table with a pot-plant on it has been placed in the walkway between the rows of beds, likely as…
This is an excerpt from the Uniting Heritage newsletter from March 2020. It shows a handwritten version of the lyrics of a song sung by the Senior girls at Kildonan in the years following World War Two. At a reunion in 2018, Bev and Nancy recollected about the songs they had sung as children at…
This is a photograph of central Brisbane, containing the Female Refuge and Infants Home in the foreground on the right hand side of the photo. It shows the Home as a two-storey brick and stone building with a front verandah, and three gable-windows on the upper storey. The home is located on slightly higher ground…
This is a photograph of the Diamantina orphanage at Roma St, Brisbane. It shows a series of three or four single-storey buildings on the top of a hill, surrounded by woodland, with the Mount Cootha range visible in the background.
This is a photograph of the Wahroonga Family Group Home, taken in 1979. It shows a large two-storey brick house with a van in the driveway.
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