The Department of Health & Community Services [II] replaced Territory Health Services. This department took on responsibility for both health and community services which included the health and welfare of children.This Department was replaced by the Department of Health and Families in 2008.
The Department of Health and Families replaced the Department of Health and Community Services in 2008. At the end of 2010, the health and welfare functions of this department were separated and the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Families were established in 2011.
The Department of Health and Community Services [l] began in 1987 when health and community services, which had been the responsibility of two different departments, were brought together. In 1995 health functions were separated again when the Territory Health Services was established. The two functions came together again in 2001 and a second version of…
The Department of Health, Northern Territory Government took over responsibility for health services from the Department of Resources and Health in 1978. In 1987 responsibility for health and community services were brought together under the Department of Health and Community Services [l].
The Department of the Northern Territory was the Commonwealth Government Department responsible for administering the Northern Territory from 1975 to 1978.
The Office of the Government Resident, Central Australia, was responsible for the administration of the Central region of the Northern Territory when it was briefly split into two separate administrative areas. The Territory was divided along the 20th parallel under the provisions of the Northern Australia Act 1926. Both regions remained under the control of…
The Office of the Administrator, Northern Territory replaced the Office of the Government Resident. The Office of the Government Resident was abolished when responsibility for the administration of the Northern Territory passed from South Australia to the Commonwealth. The Administrator was appointed as part of the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910. The Administrator undertook day…
The Northern Terrritory Divisonal Office of the Commonwealth Department of Health was responsible for health functions and services in the Northern Territory from 1939. From 1942 until 1946 as a result of the evacuation of the Territory during the Second World War the Commandant, 7th Military District took over control of these functions. In 1946…
Children from the Northern Territory were moved interstate by the government from the 1930s through to the late 1970s. Aboriginal children considered at the time to be of mixed descent were transferred interstate for training. During World War II many children from mission stations and other residential care facilities were evacuated to southern states. After…
Kormilda College was opened in Darwin by the Commonwealth Government in 1967. It operated as a hostel and boarding school for Indigenous children moving into secondary school education. From 1989 the Uniting Church and Anglican Church took over joint control of the College and it began to also provide education for day students and boarders…
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