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Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay 30 July 2007

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Bar, Jim

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Yarra Bay House

Yarra Bay House, originally built at La Perouse as a cable station, served as a NSW Government children's home from around 1917 until the 1980s. Since 1984 it has been owned by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council and has been the hub of the La Perouse Aboriginal community.

Aboriginal

Adaptive reuse

Child services

Health and Welfare Institutions

Residential building

Schools

Yarra Bay House

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Thought to have been built as a second cable station for use between 1903 and 1917, it has also been a medical ward, girls' industrial school and boys' truancy school before becoming an administrative centre for the Aboriginal land council.

Phillip Bay

Small, low-density south-eastern residential suburb on shore of Botany Bay.

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