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Industrial school for girls, Cockatoo Island 2008

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Biloela Reformatory and Industrial School

Product of a public controversy about neglected and wayward children, Biloela Reformatory was seen as an advance on imprisoning girls in adult gaols, but it quickly became a dysfunctional institution and lasted less than a decade.

Reformatories

Vocational education

Women's prisons

Cockatoo Island

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Largest island in Sydney Harbour, between Birchgrove and Woolwich.