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Settlers arrived in Australia. Apprxiamately 40000 Irish convicts came to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
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The Irish were a particularly violent rebellion. The Irish were Catholics and the English were protestants.
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William Johnson, an Irishman, assembled approxiamately 300 men outside. He led them angainst the Government at Castle Hill in New South Wales.
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It wasn't until 1820 that the first official Catholic priests, Fathers Therry and Conolly arrived.
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By the 1830s, the first Catholic churches were being built.
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In 1857, the Sisters of the Good Samaritan had been founded by Archbishop Polding.
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By 1861, there were Catholic bishops in Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane.
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Fr Julian Tennison Woods and Mark MacKillop had founded the Sisters of St Joseph.
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In 1868, independent school throughout the Australian colonies had been opened and staffed by religious orders. For example, the Irish Christian Brothers.
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Up until 1872, the colonial governments gave money to any denomination that wanted to run schools, since there was no developed state system of education at the time.
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State Governments passed a series of Education Acts.
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Archbishop Vaughan arrived in Australia from England
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Archbishop Vaughan died.
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"Our main object shall ever be to teach our pupils to value above all thing their eternal salvation, and to secure this by faithfully and steadfastly adhering to the faith of their Fathers."
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The Government had passes the discriminatory Immigration Restriction Act,
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Dr Mannix began a campaign to persuade Catholics not to vote for anit-Catholic politicians in elections, whether they were from the Labor Pparty or not.
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In 1915, the Victorian Catholic Workers Association, a group of Catholic memeber within the Labor Party, Formed with the support of the bishops to work within the Labor Party for educational justice.
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By 1916, the relationaships were so strained that Catholics were accused of not sharing the war effort and of avoiding joining the army. Also, in April, there was a rebellion in Ireland against the British Rule.
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Here, then was a cleric of extraordinary abilities, strong willed, proud and ambitious in the life of intellectual religion, an eloquent master of the art of preaching. He was not wanted in Australia.
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Faith of our fathers
Living still,
Inspite of dungeon, fire and sword.
O how our hearts beat high with jy
Whene'er we hear that glorious word.
Faith of our Fathers, holy faith!
We wiil be true to thee till death.
We wiil be true to thee till death.
Campion, E -
I am a little Catholic
I love my holy faith
I will be true to holy Church
And steadfast unto death. I shun the school of those who seek
To snare poor Catholic youth
No Church I own, no schools I know,
But those that teach the truth
Campion, E