Ngala was not a home. Rather it was a large multi-purpose institution, incarcerating women, children and newborns with which to efficently process adoptions on behalf of the government of Western Australia.

Matron Beryl Grant was in charge of Ngala's operations from its inception, until her retirement in 1980. 

Survivor truth telling told to the WA inquiry into forced adoption (2024) is very different to the Magazine clipping- attached above.

Testimonies reveal that mothers were not entitled to freely come and go from the premesis, which was surrounded by a 6 foot high fence. Mothers could not readily receive visitors of any kind and definately not from boyfriends who called for their girlfriend from the barbed wire fence. Newborns deemed for adoption, held inside the Ngala nursery were hidden away from their mothers, who were under strict orders not to seek them out. Grandparents were certiainly not welcomed into the facility to see, let alone hold their grand child. 

These practices were designed to intimidate, subjugate and coerce mothers, via sustained strategies which would produce a 'clean break' between them and their newborn. This practice WAS and IS a crime against humanity, motherhood and the newborn's birthright to remain with their mother.