Marribank Farm Training School was continued on the site of the Carrolup Native Settlement when the Settlement closed in June 1951. Some teenage Aboriginal boys from Carrolup were the first residents. In June 1952, the government closed the Marribank Farm Training School, which re-opened later in 1952 on the same site, as a Baptist Union…
Show us a light [videorecording]: the art of Carrolup is a videocassette recording about the Aboriginal ‘child artists’ at the Carrolup settlement during the 1940s and1950s. It was produced for the Marribank Family Centre in the 1980s. This item is held at the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions Open. Please apply to the…
The Marribank Children’s Homes [Katanning] is a small collection of information about Marribank, which was run by the Baptist Aboriginal Mission on behalf of the Baptist Union in Western Australia. The collection is held by the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions Open. Please contact the State Library of Western Australia so the item…
Records of Warburton Mission: 1949-1967 (incomplete) [manuscript] is a collection of records relating to the United Aborigines Mission at Warburton. The collection is held by the State Library of Western Australia and includes day books, and journals of telegrams and radio messages for the years 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955-1956, 1962-1964, and 1966-67. Access Conditions Open….
The Royal Commission appointed to Inquire into the Care and Reform of Youthful Delinquents was established in Western Australia on 11 May 1943 and reported on 10 August 1943. Key recommendations included establishing a cross-Departmental Children’s Council, ‘drastically’ restricting the publication of Children’s Court proceedings; improving remand facilities and constructing secure detention facilities for boys…
A Royal Commission on Youth Employment and the Apprenticeship System was established by the Western Australian government on 5 April 1937 and the Report was tabled on 28 February 1938. The systems of training at Fairbridge Farm School, the Unemployed Boys’ Farm at Wokalup, Werribee Farm School and Tardun Farm School were described and a…
Inspector’s books – Werribee is an item held by the State Records Office of Western Australia. The item includes reports by the school inspectors who made annual inspections of the Werribee Farm School on behalf of the government departments responsible for education. Teachers’ names and school programs are included, along with the numbers of children…
The East Perth Girls’ Home was opened in 1931 by the Aborigines Department as a hostel for young women to stay and receive training in domestic service. Over time, pregnant women were sent there to await the birth of babies and it was a reception centre for ‘half-caste’ boys and girls before they were placed…
The United Aborigines Mission, Halls Creek, was established in 1957. Until 1963, children at the mission were under the guardianship of the Commissioner of Native Welfare. The mission was closed in 1967.
Halls Creek Mission was run by the Australian Inland Mission from 1943. Children at the Mission were under the guardianship of the heads of the departments responsible for Aboriginal welfare. In 1955, some people from Moola Bulla Station moved the Mission when the Station closed. Halls Creek Mission closed in 1960. From 1948 to the…
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