Mission children, Mulgoa NSW, c. 1942 - c. 1947, courtesy of Northern Territory Archives Service.
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The children at Mulgoa had been evacuated from Croker Island and Groote Eylandt (Emerald River), as well as from Queensland, South Australia and far western New South Wales.
At Mulgoa the children and their mothers were cared for by Mrs Port, Miss Dove and Miss Alder, who had travelled from Roper River, along with Aboriginal women.
Some of the younger children and their mothers were sent to Milleewa, an Anglican children's home in Ashfield, for six months in 1942. Others were sent to private homes. Some fathers later joined their wives and children. According to John Harris, these families left Mulgoa to settle in Sydney.
After the end of World War II some of the people remained in Sydney and others returned to the Northern Territory and South Australia.
Mulgoa Mission was mentioned in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) as an institution that housed Indigenous children removed from their families.
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30 November 2021
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