[7] In 1939 the newly established Native Affairs Branch started negotiations with various missions to assume responsibility for those children considered to be "half-caste" (part-Aboriginal) currently in the government reserves at Kahlin Compound in Darwin and The Bungalow in Alice Springs.

[10] Marjorie Liddy, who grew up on the mission, provided an image that was widely used in Pope Benedict XVI's visit to World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney.

[11] Garden Point Mission was mentioned in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997), the result of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

[7] Stories of sexual abuse of boys, and trauma suffered by the children as a result of being removed from their families, emerged later, and in November 2021 the Commonwealth Government and the two churches involved issued a formal apology to the people affected.

[12] As of 2016[update] the community includes the Pularumpi primary school,[13] a police station, small supermarket, club, health facility and airstrip.