The WA Stolen Generations Redress Scheme opened on 10 November 2025. The scheme is available to Aboriginal people who were removed from their families as children in Western Australia before 1 July 1972. Eligible applicants receive a one-off payment of $85,000 and an opportunity for a personal acknowledgement from a representative of the WA government….
Records of United Aborigines Mission (UAM) – copies of records from the UAM Archive made by Alison Longworth is an archival collection at the State Library of South Australia. The records comprise copies made by Alison Longworth when she visited the UAM Archive in Doncaster, Victoria, in the early 2000s while undertaking research for her…
Aboriginal Affairs photographic negatives is a series held by the National Archives of Australia. It consists of black and white 35mm and 6 x 6cm negatives and three 5 x 4″ (12.5 x 10cm) colour internegatives from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. These items document events relating to Aboriginal Affairs. It includes photographs of institutions such…
Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board Records is a collection of records of children placed at Missions, Homes, and Hostels run by the Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board (1942-2009). These records are now held by Global Mission Partners. The collection includes personal record cards for each child that was placed at the…
Fairbridge Village provided accommodation and training for homeless and disadvantaged youth. It was established by Jesus People in 1983 on the former site of Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra. Funding difficulties meant that the project did not realise its aims to accommodate up to 250 young people at a time, and it closed in early 1985….
This is a copy of a press clipping from around 1986, showing a photograph of Yirra Hostel, around the time it was established by Jesus People.
Records of Mogumber Methodist Mission, Methodist Church is a large collection of records held by the State Library of Western Australia that document the history of the Moore River Native Settement, Mogumber Mission, and Mogumber Training Centre. It includes records containing details about the people who lived at Mogumber, as well as administrative records. Access…
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,…
This is a photograph of the Coogee Seaside House taken in 2001 by former resident Margaret Chomel.
This is a photograph of the Coogee Seaside House taken by former resident Margaret Chomel. Margaret provided information that the area running along the side of the house was previously enclosed and this is where the girls slept.
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