Sydney, NSW
Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC), a survivor-led Aboriginal community-controlled organisation in Sydney, runs the first Stolen Generations "Collective Justice Reinvestment" project and is one of ten community-led justice reinvestment sites backed by the Commonwealth's First Nations Justice Package.
Impact on the record
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$79 million for up to 30 initiatives (within a $109 million package)
Commonwealth justice reinvestment package — funding for community-led initiatives (Kinchela/Sydney one of 10 first sites announced)
“$79 million allocated to support up to 30 community-led justice reinvestment initiatives”
View the source →400-600 boys
Aboriginal boys removed/institutionalised at Kinchela Boys Home (1924-1970)
“between 400 and 600 young boys (and a small number of girls in its first year of operation) were incarcerated at the facility during its existence”
View the source →$390,000
NSW Health Stolen Generations Organisations Health Care Coordinator grant to KBHAC (separate health program, not the JR project)
“In July 2023, Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation received $390,000 through NSW Health's Stolen Generations Organisations Health Care Coordinator Grants program”
View the source →The ledger in plain view
Funding on record (lead organisation)
$751,247
Cost of detaining one child for a year
$1,300,000
ROGS 2026 national average
Equivalent child-years of detention
0.58
This is funding recorded against the lead organisation, not the site-specific federal allocation, which governments publish only as national envelopes. The comparison sets what a community receives against the price of a single cell, so the question moves from whether to fund the community to why we still fund the cell.
What runs here
Kinchela Boys Home Justice Reinvestment
Justice reinvestment initiative led by Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation in Sydney, funded under the Commonwealth National Justice Reinvestment Program (NJRP). Confirmed on the Attorney-General's Department list of funded justice reinvestment initiatives.
The people
Tiffany McComsey
Chief Executive Officer, KBHAC (appointed 2015); involved in the NSW Justice Reinvestment for Aboriginal Young People campaign
Source →The arc
1924
Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home opens; operates as a NSW government-run institution forcibly removing Aboriginal boys from their families.
Source →1970
The home closes in May 1970, with the last boys transferred out that month, after over 50 years of operation (1924-1970).
Source →2002
KBH survivors hold a reunion, 'K.B.H. The Journey Home', a milestone in the survivor-led movement that became KBHAC.
Source →2015
Tiffany McComsey appointed CEO of KBHAC by the board; she has been involved in the NSW Justice Reinvestment for Aboriginal Young People campaign.
Source →2023
KBHAC receives $390,000 through NSW Health's Stolen Generations Organisations Health Care Coordinator Grants program.
Source →2024
KBHAC (Sydney, NSW) named one of the first ten community-led justice reinvestment initiatives to secure Commonwealth support under the First Nations Justice Package (announced 19 April 2024).
Source →2024
Centenary (100th) commemoration of the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home; KBHAC calls for the site to become a national centre of truth-telling and healing.
Source →In the record
National Indigenous Times · 2024-04-19
National Indigenous Times · 2024-10-19
The Echo · 2024-10
SBS NITV
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