Werribee (also known as Werribee Girls’ Cottage) in Victoria Park was established by the Methodist Homes for Children in Victoria Park in 1962, and run by agencies of the Uniting Church after 1977. It accommodated girls of high school age in a detached house setting on the Jarrah Road boundary of the Mofflyn campus. Girls…
Watson Lodge, in Perth, opened in 1967 as a government-run hostel that provided close supervision for up to 12 teenage girls, all of whom were wards of the State. From 1976, Watson Lodge was used as one of the community-based hostels attached to Nyandi detention centre. Watson Lodge’s residential program closed in 1984. It re-opened…
Shiloh, in Broomehill, south of Katanning, was a farm school for up to 16 boys who were wards of the State, referred by the Child Welfare Department. It was run independently by Mr and Mrs Beeck on their farm, ‘Langwell’. Boys went to school on the property. Shiloh’s aim was to reform ‘delinquent’ boys through…
The Seaforth Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Gosnells (Kelmscott) was established in 1920. Boys from the Salvation Army Homes at Collie were transferred to Seaforth, and lived in different ‘sections’, including a separate facility for boys and young men with intellectual disabilities (1922-1950). Seaforth Boys’ Home closed in 1955 and remaining boys were transferred to either…
Kalumburu Mission (also known as Drysdale River Mission until around 1950) provided dormitory style residential care for Aboriginal boys and girls aged from infancy to around 16 years of age. Kalumburu began as an ‘outstation’ of the Drysdale River Mission in 1932 and became the main ‘Mission Station’ in 1937. Kalumburu Mission was managed by…
Carnarvon Teens Hostel was a hostel for around ten young people (male and female) in Carnarvon. It opened in 1968, and was part of the Carnarvon Mission that was run the Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board (Inc). The hostel aimed to give young people from Carnarvon Mission (later, Ingada Village) an opportunity to…
The Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission (AAEM) Hostel in Esperance, Western Australia was established in 1966. It was an Aboriginal Education and Employment Hostel. It provided accommodation, supervision and full board for Aboriginal boys aged 15 years and older who were working in the district. It was open until at least 1980. The AAEM Hostel was…
The Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912 (3 George V, No 16), had the full title ‘An Act to provide for the subdivision of the Cape Barren Island Reserve, and for other purposes’. It provided for the subdivision of the Cape Barren Island Reserve into homesteads and agricultural blocks specifically for the use of the…
The Marriage Amendment Act 1906 also known by its full title “An Act to amend ‘The Marriage Act 1895′” (Act no.6 Edw. VII No.19) stresses the legitimacy of marriages conducted prior to the Marriages Act 1895, or by Officiating Ministers whom were believed to be legitimate by the married parties even if they turned out…
The Maintenance Act 1921 had the full title “An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Maintenance of Deserted Wives and Children and Other Persons, and to provide for and facilitate the Obtaining and Enforcing of Maintenance Orders in Tasmania and Other Countries in which Reciprocal Provisions are in force, and for…
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