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Children in playground at Villawood Migrant Hostel 1973

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National Archives of Australia
[A12111, 2/1973/22A/203]

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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.

Children

Immigration

Residential building

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 Migrant Hostel

Accommodation for migrants established by the Commonwealth government after World War II. It was more recently converted to a detention centre for people awaiting deportation from Australia.

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