Gnowangerup Agricultural College was established in 1966 as a boarding school on the same site as Gnowangerup Mission. From 1974, child welfare authorities placed teenagers, including wards of the state, with the aim of providing child welfare support to the young people while they were at school. The Gnowangerup Training Centre (2006-2010) opened on the…
Goldfields Group Home, (also known as Boulder Group Home) was established around 1980 as a government-run group home that accommodated Aboriginal children, aged 0-13 years, on a short-term or emergency basis. Most children admitted were under 5 years of age. The Goldfields Group Home closed around 1987 and was replaced by the Kalgoorlie Group Home….
Glendalough Cottage was a group Home established in 1990 by Centrecare Children’s Cottages (later called Djooraminda) to accommodate Aboriginal children in a family-type Home in the Perth metropolitan area. Children and young people aged up to 15 years were admitted, often in sibling groups, either referred by the department responsible for child welfare, or as…
Gilmore House, in Medina, was opened in 1988 as a government-run group home that accommodated children, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, from the southwestern metropolitan area. It was located in premises previously occupied by the Medina Hostel. It is uncertain how long Gilmore House operated, but it possibly had closed by 2005. In 2014, the premises were…
Gilliamia Hostel in Onslow was established in 1961 as a government-run Aboriginal education and employment hostel for school-age children and young people of working age who came from outstations and communities to the township of Onslow for school or, occasionally, work. Gilliamia closed in 1990. Government reports (Signposts 2004, pp.218-220) show that Gilliamia was a…
Westview was the new name given to the Geraldton Group Home in 1981 when it moved to new premises. It was a government-run facility providing accommodation for children aged 0-17 years, including Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children who were wards of the State and those who were not wards. Over the years, Westview has been involved…
Geraldton Boys’ Employment Hostel was a government-run hostel for (mostly) Aboriginal boys of working-age in Geraldton. It was established around 1973 and closed in 1979. The building was later used by the Aboriginal Boomerang Council Inc for the Boomerang Youth Hostel. In government records, this hostel is sometimes referred to as an ‘Anglican hostel’. It…
Fremantle Cottage was established around 1978 in White Gum Valley by Parkerville Children’s Home to provide short to medium-term accommodation for boys and girls in a home-like setting. It remained open in 2014. Parkerville Children’s Home established Fremantle Cottage in the southern Perth suburb of White Gum Valley from 1978, with a mission grant in…
Fourteen was a government-run hostel in central Perth, established for up to 12 teenage boys who had been released under supervision from Riverbank. All boys were wards of the State (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) and went out to work or training from Fourteen. It closed in 1979 and was replaced by the Victoria Park (Riverbank) Annexe….
Forrest River Mission was established by the Anglican church in 1913, on the upper reaches of the Forrest River, near Wyndham. Around 40 Aboriginal boys and girls lived at the mission and were separated from their parents and lived in dormitories. Their lives were closely regulated until the 1950s. The head of the government departments…
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