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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples – Reserves, missions and homeland centres – Roman Catholic Mission on Bathurst Island

This image shows several buildings on the Roman Catholic Mission on Bathurst Island. The purpose of these buildings and whether or not they would have housed the children in care on the Mission is not known.

The Roper River Mission.

This image is of the Roper River Mission, established by the Church of England in 1908. The purpose of the buildings behind the children and whether or not they would have housed the children in care on the Mission is not known. The attached description notes the difference in clothing colour as an indication of…

Coconut avenue

This image shows the ‘coconut avenue’ and Mission House at Emerald River. It is not certain whether the building shown would have housed children in care on the Mission.

Garden Point Mission – Building

The description of this image suggests the building is most likely one of the dormitories housing girls at the Roman Catholic Mission at Garden Point. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

Port Keats Roman Catholic Mission, Northern Territory

This image is an aerial view of the mission at Port Keats.

Aboriginal housing at Santa Teresa Mission south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 1966

This image shows housing at the Santa Teresa Mission in 1966, now Ltyentye Apurte. It is not certain whether or not these buildings would have housed the children in care on the Mission.

Daly River Mission

This image shows a mural on a building at the Daly River Mission. The exact purpose of the building and whether or not it housed children in care on the Mission is not known.

May Holt and children at Greenbushes following evacuation from the Queens Park Children’s Cottage Home, Western Australia, ca. 1942.

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.”

Wandering Mission

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.