The first Good Shepherd Sisters in Australia landed in Melbourne on 24 June 1863. They had travelled from Angers in France at the request of Bishop James Goold of Melbourne, to establish a female rescue home. They purchased a property at Abbotsford, from which they ran an industrial school, commercial laundry, and provided accommodation for…
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart is a religious order founded in 1866, at Penola in South Australia. Its first member and Superior was Mary MacKillop. The Sisters were active in several Australian states in education and child welfare, establishing several schools, orphanages and babies’ and children’s Homes. The order of the…
The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory was one of two autonomous territories of this world-wide Christian Church in Australia. Its international headquarters are in London, England. The Southern Territory comprised the Salvation Army in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory (Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory made up…
The Stolen Generations are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who, when they were children, were taken away from their families and communities as the result of past government policies. Children were removed by governments, churches and welfare bodies to be brought up in institutions, fostered out or adopted by white families. The removal of…
The Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1941 (Act no. 12/1941) was Commonwealth legislation that approved an agreement made between the Commonwealth and the state of New South Wales for the reception, detention and maintenance in institutions in NSW of children committed to those institutions by courts of the ACT. When an ACT court committed a child…
This is an image of the Ministering Children’s League Convalescent Home at St Leonards, Tasmania. It shows a small group of women and children standing on the verandah of the large two-storey home. Another person can be seen looking out of an upstairs window. This image was published in The Weekly Courier in September 1906,…
This is an image of the Victoria Convalescent Home at Lindisfarne, Tasmania. It shows a large two-storey house with outbuildings surrounded by gardens, with bushland in the background. A woman can be seen on the upstairs verandah.
This is an image of the main block of the Ashley Home for Boys. It was published with an article about a fire at the home in The Mercury on 23 May 1950. The description published with the photo reads “Ashley Home for Boys, Deloraine, the main block of which was gutted by fire yesterday….
This is an image of the male asylum at Lachlan Park Hospital, also known as the Royal Derwent Hospital.
This is an image of the convent and chaplain’s quarters at St. Joseph’s Child Centre in Taroona. It was published in a section of Taroona 1808-1986: Farm Lands to a Garden Suburb titled “St. Joseph’s Family Support Centre”.
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