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Two women operate a detoluator machine at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Villawood c1944

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Villawood detention centre

Built on a munitions factory site, the Villawood detention centre started out as a migrant hostel, welcoming postwar immigrants to Sydney.

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Villawood

Western industrial and residential suburb, site of the post-war migrant hostel which became an immigration detention centre. Its name is a 1922 inversion of Woodville Road, as there was already a Woodville in Newcastle.

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Villawood munitions factory

Factory which was established by the Commonwealth Government in 1941 to produce munitions during World War II.

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