Perth (Kenwick)

Kenwick Boys' Home was opened as a farm property for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boys from Sister Kate's Children's Home. Kenwick often showed a restrictive, paternalistic attitude towards children: one Principal said "as I am his guardian, he must do as I say" when she refused a 17 year old boy's request to work in the city . Another person remembers how he was treated just because he was Aboriginal: "The white people, the non-Aboriginal, they had everything sort of thing and I know myself, I used to be always in patched-up pants and no shoes, and my hair, never even had a comb to comb my hair" .

Established in 1947 by non-denominational Protestants, closed in 1961.

Debra Rosser, Kenwick Farm (1947-1961) (20 November 2014) Find & Connect https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/biogs/WE00693b.htm

Philip Morrissey and Marion Campbell 'Living in Care: 'It was a Childhood'' in Anna Haebich and Doreen Mellor (eds), Many Voices: Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separatio, 61, 62-63.