The Records of the Antonian Institute for Children and Antonian Children’s Home were transferred from the custody of the Daughters of Divine Zeal to the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing in 2017. The collection comprises register books, photographs and news clippings.
This is a photograph of the interior of the History & Memory Centre at Cafs Ballarat.
This is an image of the first Family Group Home opened by Kildonan Homes for Children at their main site, 80 Elgar Road Burwood. It shows a small weatherboard cottage with a tin roof surrounded by lawn and small trees. This photograph was published in Kildonan’s annual report for either 1958 or 1959.
This is an image of the former site of the Molloy House hostel when it was located in Brunswick East.
As part of the UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which ran from 2015-2022, the Inquiry investigated child migration programs to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. Research and hearings took place in 2017, and the Investigation Report was published in March 2018. The Inquiry asked a series of questions about child migration schemes,…
The government-run Reformatory for Girls was located at Sunbury from 1865 to 1875. It was located on the same site as the Sunbury Industrial School, about half a mile away. In 1875, girls were relocated from Sunbury to a new reformatory, located at Coburg. The institution was sometimes referred to as the Reformatory for Protestant…
The Ballarat Boys’ Reformatory opened in 1879, in a building formerly used as an industrial school for girls. Before that, boys had been at the Jika Reformatory in Coburg. The Ballarat building had accommodation for 200. In 1879, there were 95 inmates, with the department hoping to increase it to 121 when the last boys…
This is a copy of a photograph of a bluestone building on the former site of the Sunbury Industrial School, taken in 2021, and published in an article by Russell Spencer in the Victorian Historical Journal in 2023.
The Immigrants’ Home was the name that early colonists gave to ramshackle buildings on either side of St Kilda Road south of Princes Bridge (Swain). This was where the Immigrants’ Aid Society provided aid to new arrivals to the colony of Victoria, later expanding its activities beyond this. Over time, the Immigrants’ Home came to…
The Immigrants’ Aid Society came into being in May 1853. A non-government organisation, its initial purpose was to provide relief and information only to new arrivals to the colony of Victoria, though its activities quickly expanded beyond providing aid to poor immigrants. Before the colonial government passed the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act in 1864…
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