Humphreys and other boys were dispatched to Bindoon, an isolated institution 60 miles north of Perth, run by the Christian Brothers, a Catholic lay order. The first shock was the desolate...

Feb 26, 2017 · Fremantle is where, in 1954, aged nine, he stepped off the ship from London, looking for the sheep he'd been told outnumbered people in Australia 100 to one. He ended up at a place called...

Jun 11, 2011 · The closest Tony Costa, a former Bindoon boy, now 70, got to his mother was visiting her grave. When she moved to the US, she left a letter at her old church with her married name and address.

Apr 28, 2014 · For five years he was brutally raped, beaten and emotionally abused by 10 brothers at Bindoon boys home during the 1940s. Yet it was the after-effects of that abuse that he sees as being the most destructive.

Jul 12, 1993 · JOHN HENNESSEY spent eight years at Boys Town Bindoon, a Catholic home run by the Christian Brothers in the the outback of Western Australia. He says Bindoon blighted his entire life.

Gordon Grant, former resident of Bindoon Boys Home. Mr Grant was sexually and physically abused by brothers at the home for several years. Gordon Grant after he finished giving evidence to the Royal Commission about the abuse he suffered at the hands of the Christian Brothers.

Mar 7, 2017 · Mr Delaney was housed at the Bindoon Boys Town orphanage, in Western Australia. It was run by the Christian Brothers order, with residents forced to construct outbuildings.

Bindoon was established by the Christian Brothers in 1936 near Bindoon, north of Perth. It began as a ‘farm and trade school’ for boys aged 12 to 16 years from various backgrounds, including Australian-born boys who were wards of the State and those who had been admitted privately, and (from 1947 to 1966) child migrants from Britain and Malta.

At his funeral in February 1954, boys from the home at Bindoon, no doubt under instruction, lined the road as a guard of honour. Referred to as “the Orphan’s Friend” in an obituary, a statue in memory of Keaney was erected at Bindoon, and the chapel and school were both named after him.

Boys’ labour built most of the buildings at Bindoon. Since 1967, Bindoon has been a Catholic agricultural high school. For further information about this Home, please refer to: A Piece of the Story.