Missions and Prisons
The architecture of control. The Quod on Wadjemup and its unmarked burial ground, Fremantle Prison's limestone, the Moore River Native Settlement, Carrolup, Oombulgurri, neck chains and police camps. This facet carries the hard history and is not softened or folded into anything else. Photographs made by these institutions say so in the caption: they were made by the administrators, not by the people pictured.
Part of Western Australia
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- - E37 Fremantle Prison tour 078. Artwork found under whitewash in James Walsh's cell at Fremantle Prison. It operated as the Convict Establishment from 1 June 1855 and was transferred to colonial control on 31 March 1886.
- - FremantlePrisonWalsh1. Artwork found under whitewash in James Walsh`s cell Fremantle Prison. In the riot of 4 January 1988 prisoners overwhelmed guards with boiling water, took six hostages and set a fire that caused about 1.8 million dollars of damage. Nobody died. The photograph was made by the institution, not by the people pictured.
- - Fremantle Prison 1866. The convict establishment, Fremantle, Western Australia, watercolour, 13.5 x 44.5 cm. The southern half of the Main Cell Block was finished in 1855 and the northern wing by the end of 1859.
- - Fremantle Prison 1899 Former Superintendent S. Hope. The prison superintendent, photographed in office. Hope, in 1899. Fremantle Prison: Former Superintendent S. Hope.
- - Quod, Wadjemup / Rottnest - 1900-. Wadjemup / Rottnest Prison ("Quod"), Western Australia. c1900-1910. At least 370 men died in custody here and are buried in unmarked graves north of the Quod. The source calls it the largest known deaths-in-custody grave site in Australia. The photograph was made by the prison establishment, not by the people pictured.
- - Fremantle Prison 1909 The radiating exercise yard. The radiating exercise yards, laid out so one guard could watch every wing. The last convict ship, the Hougoumont, arrived on 10 January 1868 carrying 62 Fenian political prisoners. The camera belonged to the institution, not to anyone in the frame.
- - Fremantle Prison 1909 The tailors' workroom. The tailors' workroom, where prisoners made the clothing the establishment issued. The colonists asked for transportation on the argument that the pastoral sector faced collapse without labour. Historians have since found the colony was oversupplied with labour and that capital and markets were the real constraint. The photograph was made by the institution, not by the people pictured.
- - Fremantle Prison 1909 The bootmakers' workshop. The bootmakers' shop, one of the trades worked under sentence here. Royal Engineers began the prison in 1851, training convicts to quarry the limestone it is built from, so the building is made of the ground it stands on.
- - Fremantle Prison 1909 The prison printery. The prison printery, which produced government forms and stationery. It operated as the Convict Establishment from 1 June 1855 and was transferred to colonial control on 31 March 1886.
- - Fremantle Prison 1909 Superintendent W. A. George. The prison superintendent photographed in his office at Fremantle Prison in 1909. The image was made by the prison administration as part of its own institutional record.
- - Fremantle Prison 1909 Chief Medical Officer Dr. J. W. Hope. The prison medical officer. Hope, in 1909. Fremantle Prison: Chief Medical Officer Dr Hope.
- - Aboriginal slaves Wadjemup / Rottnest 1883. Aboriginal slaves and prisoners on Wadjemup / Rottnest Island (multiple dates given in the library catalogues: 1883 or c1910). The Quod, built in 1863 and 1864, housed tourist accommodation until 2018, when it closed after decades of Aboriginal protest. The camera belonged to the prison, and the men in front of it were its prisoners. This is the administration's own record of the people it held.
- - Fremantle Prison (aerial photograph, 1935). Aerial view of Fremantle Prison. It was inscribed in 2010 as one of eleven places in the Australian Convict Sites serial World Heritage listing, never in its own right.
- - Gnowangerup Mission. 1941 Missions and depots across the wheatbelt, goldfields and desert took in people moved under state policy. This photograph was made by the institution, not by the people pictured.
- - Cossack 1992. Cossack Courthouse on the occasion of the opening of the new museum (some time in that week). The lockups and courthouses of the goldfields and the north are the built architecture of colonial control.
- - Cossack 1992. Cossack Courthouse on the occasion of the opening of the new museum (some time in that week). Prisoners were sent to Wadjemup from across the state, including the Kimberley and Pilbara, enormous distances from their Country.
- - New Norcia, Interior of St Gertrude's. Interior, St Gertrude's. Its schools took in Aboriginal children under the same removal policies that filled Moore River and Carrolup. The camera here belonged to the mission administration, not to the people in front of it.
- - New Norcia Benedictine Monastery. The Benedictine community here has outlasted every other mission institution in the state. The mission made this image of the people in its charge; none of them chose to be photographed.
- - New Norcia, St Gertrude's. The photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured. New Norcia was founded as a Benedictine mission in 1847 and is the only monastic town in Australia.
- - New Norcia, Handball Court. The mission made this image of the people in its charge; none of them chose to be photographed. Its schools took in Aboriginal children under the same removal policies that filled Moore River and Carrolup.
- - Moore River Panorama 1. Moore River Native Settlement operated from 1918 to 1974 under A.O. Neville's administration. The land proved unsuitable for the self-supporting farm it was meant to be, and it became an institution holding people removed from across the state; the population passed 500 in 1933. There were 346 recorded deaths between 1918 and 1952, and 42 percent of those were children aged 1 to 5. The photograph was made by the administration of the Moore River Native Settlement, not by the people pictured.
- - ESTRACK New Norcia. ESTRACK ground station (DSA 1), New Norcia, Western Australia. It was taken by the mission that held them, and not by anyone in it.
- - New norcia 1 v2. The Abbey Church, New Norcia, Western Australia. This is the mission's own record of the people it held, made without their consent.
- - St. Gertrude's School for Girls, New Norcia, Western Australia, 25 Oct. 2010. Gertrude's School for Girls, New Norcia, Western Australia, 25 Oct. 2010. The photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured.
- - SwanTouristInfoCentre 2010. Guildford, Western Australia - Swan Valley tourist information centre. Three Jaburara men convicted over Constable Griffis's death after the Flying Foam killings had death sentences commuted to twelve years on Wadjemup.
- - WTF Jim Owens Round House 1. At Round House, Fremantle. It held Aboriginal prisoners awaiting transport to Wadjemup.
- - Heritage day 2011. S taken during Heritage Day Perth Western Australia w:Plantin Polyglot Bible published in Antwerp 1572, first volume open on Genesis 1. owned by the Benedictine monatery New Norcia, Western Australia. The camera here belonged to the mission administration, not to the people in front of it.
- - Roundhouse. 2011. The Round house, Fremantle Western Australia built 1831.
- - WTF Marlene Oostryck Bathers Beach from Round House. 1- Bathers Beach from the Round House, Fremantle, Western Australia. It stands on Arthur Head above the tunnel cut through to the whalers' bay.
- - Rottnest. NITV on Wadjemup / Rottnest Island. The island was an Aboriginal prison from 1838 to 1931, with a gap between 1849 and 1855, and over 3,600 Aboriginal men and boys were imprisoned there. At least 370 died in custody and are buried in unmarked graves north of the Quod.
- - New Norcia station ESA. ESA's New Norcia station (DSA 1 − Deep Space Antenna 1), hosts a 35-metre deep-space antenna with transmission and reception in both S- and X-band. It is located 140 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, close to the town of New Norcia. The camera here belonged to the mission administration, not to the people in front of it.
- - Arthur head res. Railway sheds and yard land behind the quay. The Round House of 1831 is the oldest surviving public building in the state, built as a gaol in the colony's second year.
- - Christ the King 100 Years. One hundred years of Christ the King, published on indigiTUBE. Mission churches in the Kimberley remain in use by the communities that grew around them, which complicates any simple account of what the buildings now mean. The material is published by Aboriginal community media.
- - Nososticta kalumburu male wings. Wings of a male Spot-winged Threadtail, Nososticta kalumburu, a damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. Australian Museum specimen K301310. Dorsal view of the right forewing, above, and the right hindwing, below. Beagle Bay, Lombadina, Kalumburu and Forrest River each held children moved hundreds of kilometres from their families. This is the mission's own record of the people it held, made without their consent.
- - Nososticta kalumburu female wings. Wings of a female Spot-winged Threadtail, Nososticta kalumburu, a damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. Australian Museum specimen K301311. Dorsal view of the right forewing, above, and the right hindwing, below. The Kimberley missions took in children removed under state policy and were run by churches under government authority. The mission made this image of the people in its charge; none of them chose to be photographed.
- - Brendan Chaquebor - Oral History. An oral history recording with Brendan Chaquebor, published on indigiTUBE, the Aboriginal community media platform. indigiTUBE is run by First Nations Media Australia and carries material produced by remote community broadcasters. The archive prefers such recordings to institutional accounts wherever both exist.
- - Telling Our Stories – Our Stolen Generations (Michael Welsh). Michael Welsh tells his story for the Healing Foundation's Telling Our Stories series on the Stolen Generations. The Bringing Them Home report characterised the forced separation policies as genocide, a characterisation that was and remains disputed. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the National Apology on 13 February 2008.
- - DEATHS IN CUSTODY RALLIES AND ANOTHER PRISON DEATH. NITV covers deaths in custody rallies and a further prison death in Western Australia. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody reported in 1991. Families have continued to campaign on the implementation of its recommendations.
- - Western Australia: Another Aboriginal death in custody as thousands rally. NITV reports another Aboriginal death in custody in Western Australia as thousands rallied. Deaths in custody in the state connect directly to the imprisonment record at Wadjemup / Rottnest Island, where at least 370 Aboriginal men and boys died between 1838 and 1931. The rallies were organised by families and community organisations.
- - THE TRAUMA OF OOMBULGURRI’S DEMOLITION CONTINUES. NITV reports on the continuing trauma of the demolition of Oombulgurri in the east Kimberley. Oombulgurri was the community on the site of the former Forrest River Mission. Residents were moved out and the buildings were demolished by the state.
- - Freo prison WMAU. Fremantle Prison cell one - isolation block is where 44 prisoners spent their last night before being executed. Transportation to the colony ran from 1850 to 1868 and landed 9,721 convicts across 43 voyages.
- - Fremantle Prison YHA Outdoor Areas (2). Fremantle Prison YHA is situated in the women's wing of a historic 19th Century prison. It closed in 1991 and was replaced by Casuarina Prison on 30 November that year.
- - Roelands Mission. Noongar Dandjoo, a Noongar-produced program, on Roelands Mission near Bunbury. Roelands held Aboriginal children removed from their families across the southwest. The site is now run by former residents and their descendants.
- - Molly Craig // IADC // In Their Own Words. Molly Craig in her own words. Craig was removed to Moore River Native Settlement in 1931 with her half-sister Daisy Kadibil and her cousin Gracie Cross, escaped the next day and walked north following the rabbit-proof fence. She died in her sleep at Jigalong in January 2004, aged about 87.
- - Koolark Korl Kadjan (Spiritual Return Home). Koolark Koort Koorliny, or spiritual return home, presented by the John Curtin Gallery. The programme accompanies the return of the Carrolup children's work to Noongar Country. Repatriation of the collection followed its rediscovery at Colgate University in 2004.
- - Fremantle Prison (the establishment). World Heritage listed convict site in fremantle. It operated as the Convict Establishment from 1 June 1855 and was transferred to colonial control on 31 March 1886.
- - #MyFreoStory - FENIAN:1868 by Killian Harty. A short piece on the Fenians transported to Fremantle in 1868. Western Australia was the last Australian colony to receive transported convicts, and by 1868 convicts outnumbered free settlers roughly 9,700 to 7,300 in a colony of about 17,000. Fremantle Prison, Perth Town Hall and Government House were all built with convict labour.
- - Aboriginal women prisoners' soaring rates : a 'national crisis'. NITV reports on rising rates of imprisonment among Aboriginal women, described in the report as a national crisis. Western Australia's incarceration record is part of the same architecture of control as the missions and the island prison. The figures cited belong to the report.
- - Fremantle-Prison-Gates 2017-08-. Royal Engineers began the prison in 1851, training convicts to quarry the limestone it is built from, so the building is made of the ground it stands on.
- - Fremantle Prison - Joy of Museums - Main Cell Block. Fremantle Prison - see: www.joyofmuseums.com. It closed in 1991 and was replaced by Casuarina Prison on 30 November that year.
- - Fremantle Prison - Joy of Museums - External 2. By the late twentieth century Aboriginal people made up a large proportion of the prison population, which is the thread running from here back to Wadjemup.
- - Fremantle Prison - Joy of Museums - Houses on The Terrace 2. Fremantle Prison - see: www.joyofmuseums.com. Convict labour also raised Perth Town Hall, Perth Gaol and Government House, so the colonial public buildings and the prison share a workforce.
- - Fremantle Prison - Joy of Museums - The Gallows. The southern half of the Main Cell Block was finished in 1855 and the northern wing by the end of 1859. Eric Edgar Cooke, hanged in 1964, was the last person executed here and the last executed in Western Australia.
- - Fremantle Prison - Joy of Museums - The Gatehouse. Eric Edgar Cooke, hanged in 1964, was the last person executed here and the last executed in Western Australia. Martha Rendell, hanged in 1909, was the only woman executed here.
- - Police Station, Derby Lane. Closed 2006 and now converted into flats. Stitched image. Aboriginal prisoners in the north were chained by the neck for transport into the twentieth century, a practice recorded by the police who used it. This is a police record, made by the men who put the chains on.
- - Former Fremantle Prison. Fremantle Prison, constructed between 1851 and 1859, closed its doors and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since then it is a tourist attraction. In the riot of 4 January 1988 prisoners overwhelmed guards with boiling water, took six hostages and set a fire that caused about 1.8 million dollars of damage. Nobody died.
- - Healing Centres for the Stolen Generation Survivors. Curtin University on healing centres for Stolen Generations survivors. Bringing Them Home was conducted by Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson and tabled on 26 May 1997 at 680 pages. Witnesses were deliberately not cross-examined, a methodological choice made to avoid re-traumatising survivors.
- - Season 5 Episode 1 Roelands Mission. A fuller Noongar Dandjoo episode on Roelands Mission. Former residents of the mission returned to the site and took over its management. The program is made by Noongar people about a Noongar experience.
- - Season 6 Episode 3 Carrolup Artworks. Noongar Dandjoo, a Noongar-produced program, on the Carrolup artworks. The works were made by Noongar children held at Carrolup Native Settlement and are now at Curtin University. They are in copyright and culturally sensitive, and are not reproduced without Curtin's and the families' permission.
- - Escape of Irish Fenian John Boyle O'Reilly from incarceration in Western Australia.. An account of the escape of the Fenian John Boyle O'Reilly from imprisonment in Western Australia. The last convict ship, the Hougoumont, arrived on 10 January 1868 carrying 62 Fenian political prisoners, a visible breach of the colony's stated condition that it would receive no political prisoners. Transportation to Western Australia ran from 1850 to 1868 and delivered 9,721 convicts on 43 voyages.
- - My stolen childhood, and a life to rebuild | Sheila Humphries | TEDxPerth. Sheila Humphries speaks at TEDxPerth about her stolen childhood and rebuilding a life. Humphries is a Noongar artist who was removed from her family as a child. The account is her own, given in her own words.
- - Episode 8 - On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories. Ngikalikarra Media presents survivor stories in its On Australian Shores series. The material is produced by Aboriginal media workers in the Kimberley. Survivor testimony given directly is a different kind of record from institutional photography made by the administrators.
- - Inspecting the ‘lost’ Carrolup children’s art
- - Reconnecting to Noongar Culture - Ezzard Flowers. Ezzard Flowers speaks about reconnecting to Noongar culture through the Carrolup works. Flowers was one of those who travelled to Colgate University in 2005 to examine the collection after its rediscovery there in 2004. The repatriated works are held at Curtin University.
- - The Aboriginal children of Carrolup painted 'their' trees, 'their' landscape – John Stanton. John Stanton describes how the Aboriginal child artists of Carrolup painted their own trees and their own landscape. The children were at Carrolup Native Settlement because they had been removed from their families. What they drew was the Country they had been taken from.
- - Carrolup teacher Noel White's great talent - Noelene White. Noelene White speaks about the Carrolup teacher Noel White. Noel and Lily White are widely credited with encouraging the child art movement at Carrolup in the late 1940s. The account here comes from the teacher's own family.
- - Ezzard Flowers speaks about the Carrolup art at the opening of 'Koorah Coolingah'. Ezzard Flowers speaks at the opening of Koorah Coolingah, an exhibition of the Carrolup children's art. The exhibition returned the work to Noongar Country and to the descendants of the artists. The children who made it had been removed from their families to the institution where it was drawn.
- - John Stanton describes a frieze drawn by the Aboriginal child artists of Carrolup. John Stanton describes a frieze drawn by the child artists of Carrolup. Carrolup operated from 1915 to 1922 and again from 1939 to 1951, then as Marribank Farm Training School and later a Baptist mission until 1988. The site is now Marribank.
- - Into the Katanning Art Gallery for the 'Koorah Coolingah' exhibition. Entering the Katanning Art Gallery for the Koorah Coolingah exhibition of Carrolup works. Katanning is the nearest town to the former Carrolup Native Settlement, about 30 km to the south east. The exhibition showed the work near the place it was made.
- - The Fremantle Whalers Tunnel. It stands on Arthur Head above the tunnel cut through to the whalers' bay. The Round House of 1831 is the oldest surviving public building in the state, built as a gaol in the colony's second year.
- - New Norcia Western Australia, pig keepers cottage. The mission buildings were raised in a Spanish idiom that has no other example on this continent. This is the mission's own record of the people it held, made without their consent.
- - Rear of Cossack court house. The courthouse at Cossack, seen from the rear of the building, with watertank hill in the distance. Aboriginal prisoners in the north were chained by the neck for transport into the twentieth century, a practice recorded by the police who used it.
- - The Round House - Fremantle Western Australia. The Round House at Fremantle, the oldest surviving public building in Western Australia, completed in 1831. It was the colony's first gaol and later held Aboriginal prisoners in transit to Wadjemup / Rottnest Island. Its twelve-sided plan let a single gaoler watch every cell door.
- - Roelands. Noongar Dandjoo returns to Roelands. The mission village held removed Aboriginal children and now operates as a place run by the people who were held there. Custodianship of the site passed to the survivors.
- - WADJEMUP: koora wordel, kalygool wordel (Rottnest Island: always was, always will be). Wadjemup: koora wordel, kalygool wordel, meaning always was, always will be. The Noongar name Wadjemup precedes the Dutch name Rottnest, given by Willem de Vlamingh in 1696 as Rats' Nest Island after he mistook quokkas for large rats. The island held an Aboriginal prison from 1838 to 1931.
- - Truth of Wadjemup. / Rottnest Island was built in 1863 to 1864 as a prison and was used as tourist accommodation until 2018, when it closed after decades of Aboriginal protest. People holidayed in the cell block of a site with an unmarked burial ground beside it.
- - KURTA RON WILLIAMS 1. An extended oral history recording with Kurta Ron Williams. Oral history is the principal counterweight to a documentary record produced almost entirely by the institutions running the missions and prisons. The recording is published on an Aboriginal ministry channel.
- - Thirty years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody | 7.30. ABC 7.30 marks thirty years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Aboriginal people made up a large proportion of the Western Australian prison population by the late twentieth century, which places the modern incarceration record in the same line as Wadjemup and the Aborigines Act 1905. The commission's recommendations are widely described as substantially unimplemented.
- - Mother of Indigenous man who died in custody takes fight for justice to United Nations | ABC News. ABC News reports a mother taking her fight for justice over her son's death in custody to the United Nations. Aboriginal deaths in custody remain a live subject in Western Australia three decades after the royal commission. The campaign was driven by the family.
- - Wadjemup 100121. The Quod Rottnest Island. Wadjemup was an Aboriginal prison from 1838 to 1931, with a gap from 1849 to 1855, and held over 3,600 Aboriginal men and boys. This is the establishment's own record of the people it held.
- - Unmarked graves at a Mission from the 1800's are the focus of an indigenous campaign | ABC News. ABC News reports a campaign focused on unmarked graves at a nineteenth century mission site. Mission burial grounds across the state frequently hold unnamed and unrecorded graves. Locating and marking them is being driven by descendants.
- - Grt Nthn Hwy. New Norcia Hotel. New Norcia was founded as a Benedictine mission in 1847 and is the only monastic town in Australia. The photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured.
- - Tracing the art of a Stolen Generation: The child artists of Carrolup.. The John Curtin Gallery traces the art of the child artists of Carrolup. The Noongar child art movement ran from the late 1940s to the early 1950s at Carrolup Native Settlement near Katanning. The children were named artists: Revel Cooper, Reynold Hart, Mervyn Hill, Parnell Dempster, Claude Kelly, Micky Jackson and Barry Loo.
- - WA’s slavery shame | Paint it Blak with Emma Garlett. Emma Garlett presents Paint it Blak on the history of unfree Aboriginal labour in Western Australia. Aboriginal workers were used as skin divers in the pearling industry through blackbirding, including women and children, and regulations of 1871 to 1873 banning Aboriginal women divers are themselves the evidence that they were being used. The pastoral industry ran on Aboriginal labour that was not paid in wages.
- - Teen inmates torch buildings in 14-hour riot at Banksia Hill Detention Centre | 9 News Australia. A news report on a fourteen-hour disturbance at Banksia Hill Detention Centre, Western Australia's principal youth detention facility. Banksia Hill has been the subject of sustained litigation and inspection over its treatment of detained children. A high proportion of those held are Aboriginal.
- - A Decade of Carrolup. 2004 by Howard Morphy, and in 2005 Athol Farmer, Ezzard Flowers and John Stanton travelled there to examine it. 125 works are now held at Curtin University's John Curtin Gallery.
- - A Decade of Carrolup - Preview. A preview of Curtin University's A Decade of Carrolup. The works left Australia after Florence Rutter organised exhibitions in Perth, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow, lost the trust's funds to fraud, and sold the collection to Herbert Mayer of New York. Mayer gifted it to Colgate University in 1966.
- - Surgeon's residence, Fremantle Prison, from carpark. A building on The Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia. Martha Rendell, hanged in 1909, was the only woman executed here.
- - Fremantle Prison Gatehouse, July 2023. The Fremantle Prison Gatehouse, Western Australia. The last convict ship, the Hougoumont, arrived on 10 January 1868 carrying 62 Fenian political prisoners.
- - Memorial to John Pat at Fremantle Prison, July 2023. A memorial to John Pat at Fremantle Prison, Western Australia, a 16-year old Aboriginal Australian boy who died in police custody in 1983. By 1868 convicts outnumbered free settlers in the colony by roughly 9,700 to 7,300. The photograph was made by the police, not by the people pictured.
- - House 8 The Terrace, Fremantle, July 2023. The House at 8 The Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia, part of the Fremantle Prison complex. The colonists asked for transportation on the argument that the pastoral sector faced collapse without labour. Historians have since found the colony was oversupplied with labour and that capital and markets were the real constraint.
- - Houses 6 The Terrace, Fremantle, July 2023. The Houses at 6 The Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia, part of the Fremantle Prison complex. Ticket-of-leave men could work for wages inside an assigned district before their sentence ended, then take a conditional pardon that freed them everywhere except England.
- - The Western Australian Convict Phenomenon. A talk on the Western Australian convict system. The colonists claimed a severe labour shortage, and the York Agricultural Society argued the economy was on the brink of collapse, but historians have found the colony was actually oversupplied with labour and that capital and markets were the real constraint. The request should be read as what colonists claimed rather than as established economic fact.
- - Roelands Mission’s healing transformation | The Point | NITV. NITV's The Point reports on the transformation of Roelands Mission into a healing place. The mission was one of several institutions in the southwest that held children removed under Western Australian policy. Survivors now direct what happens on the site.
- - Educating Stolen Generation's stories through art: Sandra Hill. The Noongar artist Sandra Hill speaks at Curtin University about teaching Stolen Generations histories through art. Hill's work addresses the removal policies directly. Curtin's John Curtin Gallery is developing a Centre for Truth Telling around the Carrolup collection.
- - Beagle Bay ‘Mother of Pearl’ church. The church in Beagle Bay community in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, opened in 1918 and famous for its interior decorated with mother of pearl, cowrie, volute and olive snail shells. Mission schooling was conducted in English and the languages of the children were suppressed in it. This photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured.
- - Altar of Beagle Bay ‘Mother of Pearl’ church. The altar of the church in Beagle Bay community in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, opened in 1918 and famous for its interior decorated with mother of pearl, cowrie, volute and olive snail shells. The missions were the delivery mechanism for a removal policy that the state set and the churches carried out. This photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured.
- - Tony Davis Bella Kelly and the Carrolup Child Artists. Tony Davis speaks about Bella Kelly and the Carrolup child artists. Kelly was a Noongar painter whose landscape work is associated with the same southwest tradition. The recording is published on a Noongar culture channel.
- - Wadjemup project video. Reconciliation WA presents the Wadjemup project. The Wadjemup Aboriginal Burial Ground project began in 2015, and by June 2016 buildings had been removed from the site and a pathway constructed around it. The Quod, the quadrangular prison building of 1863 to 1864, held tourist accommodation until 2018.
- - Sister Kate’s Home Kids Aboriginal Corporation Cultural Learning Experience. A cultural learning experience run by the Sister Kate's Home Kids Aboriginal Corporation. The corporation is made up of people who were held at the home as children and their descendants. They now run cultural programs on the site.
- - Rottnest Island's dark past commemorated | NULA | NITV. NITV's NULA program on the commemoration of the history of Wadjemup / Rottnest Island. Prisoners were transported there from across the state, including the Kimberley and Pilbara, enormous distances from their own Country. Influenza is estimated to account for roughly 95 percent of the deaths.
- - Once Known D. A longer presentation of Once Known at the John Curtin Gallery. Institutional photographs of Aboriginal people were overwhelmingly made without consent, by the institutions running the sites, of people subject to them. Naming the institution that made an image is part of captioning it honestly.
- - Once Known. ' names stripped out. Recovering who is actually pictured is part of what the gallery's truth telling work involves.
- - The Tragedy of the Moore River Mission - Western Australia. An account of Moore River Native Settlement, about 135 km north of Perth. It operated from 1918 to 1974 and recorded 346 deaths between 1918 and 1952, of which 42 percent were children aged one to five. The population peaked above 500 in 1933.
- - Banksia Hill stand-off lasts 17 hours | 7NEWS. A news report on a seventeen-hour stand-off at Banksia Hill Detention Centre. The facility holds children in detention in Western Australia and has been repeatedly criticised by the state's own inspector of custodial services. The reporting is from November 2025.
- - Old Albany Gaol - Western Australia. The Old Albany Gaol on the south coast. Albany was the site of the first British military outpost in Western Australia, established by Major Edmund Lockyer in 1826, two years before the colony at Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River. The gaol held both convicts and Aboriginal prisoners.
- - Back to Mogumber. 1951, and it closed in 1974. The site is now known as Budjarra and is managed by the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation.
- - Northam Courthouse, April 2026. The state heritage listed Northam Courthouse, Western Australia. Perth Gaol was built by convict labour between 1854 and 1856.
- - Northam Police Station, April 2026. The Northam Police Station, Western Australia. Three Jaburara men convicted over Constable Griffis's death after the Flying Foam killings had death sentences commuted to twelve years on Wadjemup. It was taken by the officers, not by anyone in their custody.
- - Foundation stone of the Northam Courthouse, April 2026. Foundation stone of the state heritage listed Northam Courthouse, Western Australia. The lockups and courthouses of the goldfields and the north are the built architecture of colonial control.
- - Prisoner walkway to The Quod, Wadjemup / Rottnest Island, April 2026. The prisoner walkway from the shore to The Quod, Rottnest Island, Western Australia. The Wadjemup Aboriginal Burial Ground project began in 2015, and by, June 2016 buildings had been cleared from the site. It was made by the institution doing the holding, not by anyone held.
- - Renovation works at The Quod, Wadjemup / Rottnest Island, April 2026. Renovation works at The Quod, Wadjemup / Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Vlamingh named the island in 1696 after mistaking its quokkas for large rats. The photograph was made by the prison establishment, not by the people pictured.
- - Guildford Gaol, August 2026. The state heritage listed former Guildford Gaol, Western Australia. Prisoners were sent to Wadjemup from across the state, including the Kimberley and Pilbara, enormous distances from their Country.
- - Former Guildford Court House, August 2026. The former Guildford Court House, now the Swan Valley Visitor Centre, Western Australia. Perth Gaol was built by convict labour between 1854 and 1856.
- - Remembering the brutal Forrest River massacre after a century of scars | ABC NEWS. ABC News marks a century since the Forrest River massacre in the east Kimberley. Massacre casualty figures for the Western Australian frontier vary widely by estimator and this archive gives ranges rather than single numbers. The University of Newcastle's Colonial Frontier Massacres project, led by Lyndall Ryan, who died in 2024, is the reference dataset and was frozen in 2024.