The Aborigines Welfare Ordinance 1954 (Act no. 8/1954) was Commonwealth legislation, established to ‘provide for the welfare and control of Aborigines, particularly those at the Wreck Bay reserve’ (Jervis Bay Territory). The 1954 Ordinance followed the lines of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Acts, 1909-1943 and was approved by the Aborigines Welfare Board of…
The Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 1941 (Act no. 11/1941) was Commonwealth legislation that allowed for children from the ACT to be placed in NSW institutions. It provided that a court in the ACT may commit a person under the age of eighteen to a NSW institution, in accordance with the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act…
The Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 1949 (Act no. 9/1949) was Commonwealth legislation, which amended the definition of ‘neglected child’ in the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905 (NSW). It commenced on 29 September 1949 and was repealed by the Child Welfare Ordinance 1957 on 1 March 1958. The NSW child welfare legislation…
The Adoption of Children Ordinance 1938 (Act no. 2/1938) was Commonwealth legislation that regulated adoption of children in the ACT for the first time. This Ordinance was repealed by the Adoption of Children Act 1965, commencing on 18 October 1966. Under the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1938, adoption required the consent of the child’s parent…
This is a photograph of young children sitting outside accompanied by a woman. The caption on the back of the photograph reads “May Holt & children Greenbushes Kindergarten.”
This is a copy of an image that accompanied a news article in January 2019 about the conviction of a former superintendent of Wandering Mission for sexual offences against a girl living in the Home.
This is an image showing a number of children standing outside of Greenbushes Hostel. The State Library of Western Australia summary for this image reads “In February 1942 some children and staff from Sister Kate’s Queens Park Children’s Cottage Home were evacuated to the de-licensed Duke of York Hotel at Greenbushes.”
This image shows buildings used as the Salvation Army Children’s Homes near Collie, Western Australia.
This is a photograph taken at Drysdale River Mission showing seven Aboriginal people seated on the ground in front of one of the Benedictine Fathers of the Mission. All have their hands up to their foreheads and appear to be making the sign of the cross. In the background some of the Mission buildings are…
This photograph shows the building in which the Geraldton Protestant Children’s Home was situated.The image was originally published in The Sunday Times, Perth, Wetern Australia, on the 10th July 1921.
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