Nindeebai Education Hostel, in Boulder, was established in 1971 or 1972 as a government-run education hostel for Aboriginal teenagers who were going to high school in Kalgoorlie. It closed in 1984. Nindeebai Education Hostel, which was purpose-built in 1971, was originally going to be known as the Goldfields Students’ Hostel, but the annual report of…
Neuville was a service providing short or long term residential care for girls. According to Signposts (2004), it is likely that Neuville started out as a successor to the Home of the Good Shepherd. Government reports (Signposts 2004, pp.369-371) give no information about why Neuville was established, but it is known that by 1975, Neuville…
Nabberu Hostel at Leonora was a government-run residential facility for primary-school aged children. It is unclear when the hostel opened, however it was declared an approved institution for the purposes of receiving child endowment payments in 1967, at which time there were 24 children in residence. By 1971 the hostel housed 66 boys and girls…
Myera House, in Subiaco, was established around 1973 as a government-run Aboriginal education and employment hostel for young people going to high school in Perth. Myera closed briefly in the mid-1980s but had re-opened by 1987. By 1994, only seven boys (aged 15 to over 18 years) had been admitted. Myera closed permanently around 2005….
Moorgunyah Hostel, in Port Hedland, was established in 1967 as a government-run Aboriginal education and employment hostel for young people going to high school in Port Hedland. The number of students able to be accommodated at Moorgunyah changed from 52 (1971) to 30 (1995). It closed, possibly around 1996. Government reports (Signposts 2004, pp.357-359) show…
Miss Elphick’s Boarding House was a privately-run boarding facility in metropolitan Perth that was described in a 1971 survey of Aboriginal education and employment hostels as occasionally accommodating young Aboriginal people, possibly from regional Western Australia, independently of government authorities.
Meekatharra Hostel was one of two government-run hostels in Meekatharra and was first known as Consols Road Hostel. It opened in 1983, for Aboriginal boys going to high school in the town. By 1995, Meekatharra Hostel was the only hostel and was fully focused on ‘care and protection’ admissions of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children of…
Medina Education and Employment Hostel was a government-run hostel for Aboriginal students. It opened around 1971, possibly being run by the Department of Native Welfare and then, in 1972, transferred to the Department for Community Welfare. In 1983 it became a government-run community support hostel. Aboriginal education and employment hostels, such as Medina, were operated…
McDonald House was established in 1952 by the Department of Native Welfare as an Aboriginal education and employment hostel for boys attending high school in Perth. It later became an ‘annexe’ of Hillston (1955-1983) and Riverbank (1984-1985). It was originally located in West Perth before moving to Mount Lawley in 1963. The Anglican Church ran…
Laverton Hostel, in Craiggie Street, Laverton was established in 1984 as a government-run education hostel for Aboriginal school-age children. By 1986, the hostel provided emergency accommodation for mostly pre-school age children and by the 1990s it was an emergency hostel for children and young people, from birth to 18 years, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. Laverton Hostel…
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