The site of the mission, on 2,000 acres (810 ha) north of Darlot Creek, was formally reserved in 1869, and the Mission continued operations until the reserve was finally revoked in 1951, with most of the land handed over to the Soldiers Settlement Scheme to provide land for white veterans of World War II.
The Mission was mentioned in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) as an institution that housed Indigenous Australian children removed from their families.
[8] He refused to allow them to work on neighbouring farms; he would not permit family members to move onto the Mission; and he considered rations as a reward rather than a right.
Annual reports reveal that deaths outnumbered births at the mission; by 1905 the number of children was so low that the school was reduced to part-time operation.
Many residents of the mission responded to the call for volunteers for World War I, and at least eighteen young men died in service; however, upon the surviving veterans' return, their requests for land were refused.
The last residents were transferred to Lake Tyers apart from four elderly people, who were allowed to remain under the supervision of the local police constable.
The transfer included "full management, control and enjoyment by the Kerrup-Jmara Elders Aboriginal Corporation of the land granted to it".
[17] The National Parks service and the Kerrup-Jmara people undertook a project in which part of the Mission was recreated, with buildings rebuilt, including tourist accommodation.
[1] The mission land was included in the area described as "The Mt Eccles Lake Condah Area: About 7880ha, 6km south west of Macarthur, comprising Mount Eccles National Park, Stones State Faunal Reserve, Muldoons Aboriginal Land, Allambie Aboriginal Land and Condah Mission", which was declared part of the Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape in July 2004 under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
[18][19] On 6 July 2019, the Mission was included in Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site on that date.
[20][21] Lake Condah Mission Station was mentioned in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) as an institution that housed Indigenous children removed from their families.