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Farm for underprivileged boys in New South Wales

This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1966 about Iandra Methodist Rural Centre. The caption reads: ‘VS Of large old mansion called Iandra. VS Some of the underprivileged boys who live in mansion and then they go off to work on the fields and in the pig pens. MS Group of boys, pan to…

Arthur Sullivan’s house at 6 Queen Street, Mosman ‘Burrawang’

This is an image of ‘Burrawang’, a large house that was leased to the Spastic Centre free of charge by Arthur Sullivan in late 1944. This image was published in Nothing Is Impossible: Adventures in cerebral palsy by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. The date for this image is unknown, the date range included here is…

KIRINARI (A Place of Learning)

This is an image of the Kirinari Hostel in Sylvania Heights. This photo is undated, the dates included are an estimate.

Boys’ Home, Camden. N.S.W.

This image was included in a small photo album that was created by a staff member of Our Boys’ Home to send to their family in the UK in 1930.

[Our Boys’ Home]

This image was included in a small photo album that was created by a staff member of Our Boys’ Home to send to their family in the UK in 1930.

[Boys at Our Boys’ Home]

This image was included in a small photo album that was created by a staff member of Our Boys’ Home to send to their family in the UK in 1930.

Final sitting: Commissioners and Dr Marie-Louise Ayers, the Director-General of the National Library with the Message to Australia book

This is an image of the six commissioners of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse with Dr Marie-Louise Ayers (centre), displaying the Message to Australia book. This image was published on the Royal Commission’s website.

Final Report

This is an image of the published Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It shows all 17 volumes of the final report. This image was published on the Royal Commission’s website.

“The Home”, Hunters Hill

This is a drawing of The Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home, which housed the Isabella Lazarus Home for Jewish Children. It shows the home as a large square complex with a central courtyard. It was published with an article about the home in The Hebrew Standard of Australasia on 4 July 1952.

Bexley Boys’ Home

This is an image of the Salvation Army’s Bexley Boys’ Home. it shows a large two-storey building with two signs on the front reading “Bexley” and “The Charles Kolling Memorial Building.” This photo appeared in an article published by the St George & Sutherland Shire Leader about abuse that occurred at the home. The article…