Mothers Quarters at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement 1962

1927 — A separate dormitory is built for women with babies and young children.

“It is becoming a regular thing for girls to return from domestic service in a certain condition and remain at the dormitory until the child is born, the father of the child being a white man.”
— GW Shand, Anglican Minister to Home Secretary Stopford, May 1922
The new girls dormitory did not provide accommodation for single women with babies and very young children. To accommodate this group a separate dormitory is built in 1927. It becomes known as the Babies Home or Mothers Quarters.
A majority of single mothers, under the supervision of the Settlement Matron, are confined until they married. The children are sent to one of the dormitories.