The Don Bosco Youth Hostel was opened by the Catholic Church in conjunction with the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1999. It was located in the former premises of Boys Town which had been renovated. The Hostel provided accommodation for young men and women, mainly from country South Australia, who had left high school and…
The Adelaide Hospital opened in 1841 in Adelaide’s East Parklands and replaced the Colonial Infirmary. It was run by a board of management. In 1855 construction of a new larger hospital began on North Terrace. After the transfer of patients the old hospital building became part of the adjacent Adelaide Lunatic Asylum. In 1939 the…
The Quambi Nursing Home, North Adelaide, was established around 1910. It was a maternity home, run by Mrs Bartels. Around 1913, the Babies’ Hospital Association arranged for a tent to be sent up in the grounds of Quambi, for the care of sick babies, whose mothers could not afford the regular fees of a private…
The Fairbridge Society in Britain held personal and institutional records that may be of interest to people who were placed in as children at Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia, or at Drapers Hall in South Australia. These records are now managed by The Prince’s Trust, a British charitable organisation that merged with Fairbridge in…
The Koonibba Mission was established west of Ceduna by the Lutheran Church in 1901. In 1914 the Koonibba Children’s Home was opened at the Mission for Aboriginal children. The government took control of the Mission in 1963 and the Children’s Home closed. The Koonibba Mission was returned to the control of the Aboriginal Community in…
The collection, Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Synod in Australia, contains records relating to the Kallilpaninna Mission (also known as the Bethesda Mission Station) at Killalpaninna in South Australia and its outstations at Kopperamanna and Etadunna. It also contains records relating to the Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory. The collection includes correspondence, school…
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is the national research and collecting institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present. It holds the world’s most comprehensive collection of print, moving image, sound recordings and photographic materials relating to…
The Killalpaninna Mission was opened in the far-north of South Australia by the Lutheran Church in 1867. A school was opened in 1868 and by 1879 the Mission was operating dormitories for Aboriginal girls and boys. Financial problems, drought and the outbreak of World War I all contributed to the Church’s decision to sell the…
Save the Children Fund is an international organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of children. The South Australian branch of Save the Children Fund was established in 1922. From 1951 the fund focused its work on improving the health and education of Aboriginal children. Save the Children Fund ran the Oodnadatta Hostel from 1970 into…
The Aboriginal Catholic Community (ACC) was established in 1978. It provided services to Aboriginal people in Adelaide including an opportunity shop, craft centre and social centre. The ACC also ran a street work program in Hindley Street in Adelaide with the aim to assist Aboriginal youth. The ACC ran Otherway House from 1983-1984 and also…
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