In 1970, eight women from Ballarat, who worked as Honorary Probation Officers, established a hostel for adolescent girls called Lisa Lodge. In 1976, the Committee established Hayeslee House. In 1994, Lisa Lodge Hostel closed and was replaced by a Family Adolescent Support Team. Hayeslee House, which relocated from Ballarat to Sebastopol in 1977, was renamed…
Lisa Lodge Girls’ Hostel, Ballarat, was established in 1970 and was run by a committee of women, all of whom were Honorary Probation Officers. It provided residential care for eight adolescent girls at a time. Lisa Lodge was located in a number of different properties around Ballarat. The Hostel closed in 1994. Some time after…
The George Street Children’s Home was established in 1916 and run by the Ballarat Town and City Mission. The Town and City Mission Visitor of 4 August 1916 appealed for more furniture to be donated to help the children at George Street settle in, and “make the place something like it ought to be”. In September 1916…
The Ballarat Benevolent Asylum opened in 1859, in a building in Ascot Street. Until institutions specifically for children were established in Ballarat, many children were housed there. The Ballarat Benevolent Asylum closed its doors to children in 1869. Surviving records of the Benevolent Asylum include admission registers (1859-1900) and annual general reports (1859-1970). These records…
The Community of the Holy Name is a religious order founded in Melbourne, in 1888. The founder of the order, Emma Caroline Silcock (also known as Sister Esther), led the work of the Mission to the Streets and Lanes in Melbourne, and the two organisations had a close association. The order was not formally established…
The Neglected Children’s Act 1915, No. 2703 consolidated the laws contained in the Neglected Children’s Act 1890. It repealed the Neglected Children’s Act 1890, No. 1121. It was amended by Act No. 2875, Act No. 2980, Act No.3001, Act No. 3351, Act No. 3421, Act No. 3497, Act No. 3605, Act No. 3620. It was…
In 1856 a Select Committee of Inquiry upon Penal Discipline was established and reported to Parliament in 1857. This group influenced the development of Victoria’s first piece of child welfare legislation, the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act 1864. Donella Jaggs writes that the 1857 Select Committee of Inquiry upon Penal Discipline ‘for the first time…
The Infant Life Protection Act 1915, No. 2670, sought to consolidate the Victorian laws relating to the protection of infant life (namely, the Infant Life Protection Acts of 1890 and 1907). It was a re-enactment of the Infant Life Protection Act 1907. The long title is ‘An Act to consolidate the Law relating to the…
The Neglected Children’s Act of 1890 (No. 5, Vict. 1121) was an act to consolidate the law relating to ‘neglected’ children in Victoria. It repealed the Neglected Children’s Act 1887 (51 Vict. No. 941), and was repealed by the Neglected Children’s Act 1915 ( No. 2703).
The Aborigines Protection Act 1886, No. DCCCCXII (912), commenced the policy of forcibly removing “half caste” aboriginals from missions and reserves. It did so by changing the definition of aboriginal to exclude “half-castes”. The Long title of the Act is ‘An Act to amend an Act intituled “An Act to provide for the Protection and…
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