Condingup Hostel

Run by

• Australian Churches of Christ Indigenous Ministries (2009 - 2013)
  Date: 1974? - 1976
• Australian Aborigines' Evangelical Mission (1949 - 1980s)
  Date: 1967? - 1974?

Related Organisations

• Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission Hostel (1966 - 1980?)
  Young men from the Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission Hostel and the Condingup Hostel socialised regularly in Esperance while Condingup was managed by the Churches of Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board (Inc.), and it is possible that some Condingup residents went to live at the AAEM Hostel in Esperance when Condingup closed.
  Date: 1975 - 1976
• Fairhaven Hostel (1965 - 1987)
  Young people from the Condingup Hostel and Fairhaven Hostel regularly socialised in Esperance, as part of the Church of Christ community in that town.
  Date: 1976 -
• Norseman Mission (1935 - 1985)
  Condingup Hostel accommodated some boys after they left Norseman Mission to gain work skills in the Esperance area.
  Date: 1974 - 1976
• Wongutha Mission Training Farm (1954 - 1993)
  Condingup Hostel accommodated some boys from Wongutha Mission Training Farm when they went out to work in the Esperance area.

This page was written by Debra Rosser, last updated 20 September 2024. Sources used to create this entry:

• Deslee Moyle, Churches of Christ 'Fairhaven' Hostel, Esperance, 2014 View Publication Details
• Deslee Moyle, Condingup Hostel for Working Young Men, Esperance, 2014 View Publication Details
• Information Services, Department for Community Development, Signposts: A Guide for Children and Young People in Care in WA from 1920, 2004 View Publication Details
• Email from Deslee Moyle on 17 April 2014 regarding the relationship between Condingup and the AAEM Hostel, Esperance and Interview conducted by Debra Rosser with Avon and Deslee Moyle, Duncraig, on 15 April 2014 regarding Condingup. 'Leases crown grant in trust reserve 28977 Condingup Lot 50 51 for Aboriginal hostels Aust Aborigines Evangelical Mission Shire of Esperance CG25' (1967-1982), State Records Office of Western Australia, AU WA S211- cons6243 1967-00852-01RO, accessed via State Records Office of WA website on 1 September 2015.

• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, 1997. View Publication Details

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Records

• Department of Aboriginal Affairs [predecessors], Records (1886 - 2004)
• Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board Photographs, Western Australia