The Country Women’s Association of New South Wales (CWA) is a not-for-profit women’s organisation that works for the welfare of women and their families by raising funds, lobbying governments and teaching life skills. From the 1940s until the 1980s various branches of the CWA ran hostels for rural girls so they could live in town…
O’Brien House was a children’s home mentioned in a 1979 Commonwealth Government report called Why are they in children’s homes: report of the ACOSS children’s home intake survey. No more is known about this Home. If you have information about O’Brien House, please contact the Find & Connect web team using the ‘Contact Us’ button…
The Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia is a Catholic women’s religious order. In 1867, representatives of an Irish Dominican community founded an autonomous eastern Australian congregation initially based in Maitland, New South Wales (Hellwig, 2020). The Dominican Sisters ran the School for Deaf Girls at Waratah in New South Wales (established 1886), and St Mary’s…
The Warrah Rudolf Steiner School for Curative Education was established in 1969 in Dural. Students from the special school lived in a purpose-built 12 bedroom cottage known as Waratah. In 1969, Waratah housed 15 children, 6 adults and 10 co-workers [staff]. As well as the school, Warrah also had a biodynamic and organic farm. Over…
The Collection of the Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands Archives contains records generated by the general administrative body of the Dominican Sisters, the Sisters themselves, and the ministries of the Sisters since 1867. The Archives are located at Strathfield, New South Wales. The records take the form of papers, photographs, slides,…
Rainbow Lodge was a children’s home at Hazelbrook operated by the Handicapped Children’s Centre of New South Wales from 1970. The building, located on the Great Western Highway, had previously been Haddon Hall. Rainbow Lodge was in the former Haddon Hall buildings. These had been owned by Japanese businessman and vice-consul Toransuki Kitamura, who had…
The Sky Pilot Fellowship was an evangelical Christian organisation set up by Gwen and Keith Langford-Smith, who fostered Aboriginal children on their Kellyville farm property, which became Marella Mission Farm. Keith Langford-Smith was a pilot and Anglican missionary who had lived in the Northern Territory, and had run Roper Mission for the Church Missionary Society…
Marella Mission Farm originated in the early 1950s with Gwen and Keith Langford-Smith fostering Aboriginal children on their farm property at Kellyville. From 1953, Marella Mission Farm operated as an institution where Aboriginal children were removed to. Keith Langford-Smith was a missionary who rose to fame in the 1930s for his accounts of flying across…
Kirinari Hostel was established in 1967 to provide accommodation for secondary students who are living in Sydney. It was established by the Aboriginal Children’s Advancement Society, with Aboriginal Hostels Ltd taking over the running of the hostel in 1976. A second site was later opened in Newcastle, around 1971. Kirinari Hostel was mentioned in a…
Kinomi Children’s Home was mentioned in a 1979 Commonwealth Government report called Why are they in children’s homes: report of the ACOSS children’s home intake survey. No more is known about this Home. If you have information about Kinomi Children’s Home, please contact the Find & Connect web team using the ‘Contact Us’ button on…
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