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The Catholics In Australia were convicts. Approximately 40,000 Irish convicts came to Australia between 1788 and 1868
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The first catholic priests, fathers therry and conolly arrived.
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The first catholic churches are being built and by 1861 there were catholic bishops in sydney, hobart, adelaide, perth, melbourne and brisbane.
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Mary mackilop and st julian tennison wood founded the sisters of st joseph, and had opened schools for poor rural children throughout south australia.
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The colanial governments gave money to any denomination that wanted to run schools, since there was no development state system of education at the time.
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The labor Party in Austrlaia began in the 1890s from the trade union movement. From the beginnning of the twentieth century, as Federation became a reality, a great many Catholics joined the labor party.
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In 1895 a state premiers' conference agreed that there would be elections for a federal convention. The task of this convention would be to decide how to form a federal government on Australia.
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IN 1901, the government had passed the discriminatory Immigration Restriction Act. This meant that only people with 'white' skin were accepted as migrants.
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by 1910, when the labor party won victory in both state and federal elections, it became obvious that their large numbers of catholic members had helped them win.
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In april 1916 in Ireland, there was a rebellion against british rule, and Catholics in Australia belived that it had been provoked by the British.
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religious education in catholic schools wre centred on a little book, rewritten in 1937, and later called 'the little green catechism'.
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aboriginal people were gradually given the rights that other australians take for granted, but it was only in 1967 that they were allowed to vote.