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Clontarf Aboriginal College
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Clontarf Aboriginal College is a co-educational Aboriginal college for indigenous youth aged between 15 and 18 years, located in the Perth suburb of Waterford in Western Australia. Since 2000 the college has also been the centre for the Clontarf Football Academy run by the Clontarf Foundation a program of Australian rules football for indigenous youth.
Opening in 1901, the facility has been used for a number of purposes since, most notably as an orphanage for boys operated by the Christian Brothers organisation, and also as a convent and as a day and boarding school. During World War II it was used as a training school for the Royal Australian Air Force. Through its history, it has housed and educated day boys and boarders, orphans, vagrants, children from disadvantaged families, child migrants and Aboriginal children.
In recent years the college chapel has been home to a small Serbian religious community (St Basil of Ostrog) belonging to the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand.
The estate is situated on the northern banks of the Canning River between the river and Manning Road, east of Elderfield Road. Curtin University is nearby. It was expanded several times over the years through purchases of adjoining land and ultimately occupied over . From 1981 large portions of the property were subdivided and became the residential suburb of Waterford.
The name Clontarf comes from Clontarf (Irish: Cluain Tarbh, meaning "meadow of the bull"), a wealthy suburb in the north-east of Dublin, Ireland, reflecting the origins of the founder of the Christian Brothers, Edmund Ignatius Rice, as well as many of the early Christian brothers. Clontarf, Ireland, was the site of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 which saw the defeat of the Vikings by Brian Boru, a High King of Ireland from 1002 to 1014.
In 1897, the Christian Brothers assumed control of the Sisters of Mercy orphanage in Subiaco, which housed 81 boys. Shortly after, the Brothers located and acquired land on the banks of the Canning River near present-day Manning.
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