Nazareth
House was a great grim building, its brick walls rising from the Brisbane
suburb of Wynnum North, softened only by a sparse cluster of palms. Inside, its pious austerity moved one Queensland
child-care officer to report:
"The design of the building itself is along
the lines of a monastery, with cloisters, crucifixes, statues etc in great
abundance. "First impressions of it are that it is a very cold, imposing place, and
it must be extremely frightening for a child, especially one of tender years,
to be placed there."