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'The End of the Odyssey - Children handed over to Child Welfare Department' March 1927

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[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168682028 via Trove]
(Truth (Sydney) 20 March 1927 p 12)

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Bidura

As the primary hub for child welfare in Sydney, Bidura is a place shared by members of the Stolen Generations and Forgotten Australians and is remembered by them with little fondness.

Aboriginal

Children

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Bidura

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Two storey Victorian house with a former ballroom and large formal garden which was once one among many grand estates along Glebe Point road. From the 1920s the house was used as a girls' home and children's court whilst a remand centre was constructed at the rear in 1980 to facilitate the operation of Bidura Children's Court. It was sold for residential development in 2014.

Metropolitan Children's Court

Court established by the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act, 1905 to hear and determine cases of offences committed by or against children.

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