Retta Dixon Home

The Retta Dixon Home was established in 1946 by the Aborigines Inland Mission of Australia (AIM), now renamed Australian Indigenous Ministries.

[1] Retta Dixon was a woman who in 1896 took over the Petersham Christian Endeavour Society at La Perouse, near Botany Bay in New South Wales, before moving to the Singleton area in the Hunter Valley in 1905, where the Aborigines Inland Mission of Australia was formed.

[9] The findings, released on 19 August 2015, found that AIM "did not meet the obligations that it had to children in its care, including protection from sexual abuse".

The Commissioners found that AIM did not provide sufficient training to its staff on how to detect or respond to allegations of child sexual abuse.

However the government prevented Australian Indigenous Ministries (AIM) from being a participant in the NRS, for the stated reason that the group could not afford to pay out potential claimants.

[12] In September 2021, a civil lawsuit brought by a man in his 50s against AIM and the Commonwealth in 2020 for abuse suffered by him at the home was concluded, with compensation paid after agreement was reached in a court-ordered mediation process.