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Fr John Brosnan
From his birth of Irish parents on 12th April, 1919, at Keilambete near Terang, in a small community where there were few Catholics, John Brosnan learned to reach out to the wider community. He went to the State School at Cudgee, St Mary’s Christian Brothers at Geelong, before spending his last four years at Assumption College, Kilmore. -
Kathleen Mary Egan
Kathleen Mary Egan (1890-1977), Dominican Sister and educationist, was born on 16 December 1890 at The Rock, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, third child of Richard Egan, a railway stationmaster from Ireland, and his native-born wife Catherine, née Connors. Educated from the age of 15 by the Dominican nuns at Maitland, Kathleen entered the order's novitiate in 1910 and was professed on 14 November 1912, taking the religious name Mary Madeleine Thérèse. -
Elizabeth Durack
Elizabeth Durack (1915–2000), painter, essayist, cultural ambassador, is a powerful exemplar of such awareness. Her art explored, over a lifetime, how to reconcile the dispossession of the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley. In this, and in much else, Durack was a pioneer. -
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Vatican II
Vatican II was an ecumenical council that took place in Vatican City from October 11, 1962, until December 8, 1965. This council represents a major event in the life of the Church of the 20th century, and for this reason it constitutes a fundamental era in universal history. -
Caritas begins in Australia
Caritas began in Australia in 1962 as the Catholic Church Relief Fund (CCRF), which became the Catholic Overseas Relief Committee in 1964. In 1996 the agency became Caritas Australia. The word Caritas comes from Latin, and means love and compassion. -
White Australia Policy
The Immigration Restriction Bill, which enacted the white Australia policy, was initiated in the House of Representatives by Prime Minister Edmund Barton on 5 June 1901, nine sitting days after the Duke of York had opened the Australian Parliament on 9 May 1901. -
Fr Frank Fletcher
Fr Frank Fletcher raised awareness of Aboriginal Spirituality in the wider community and its place in Christianity. His role as a priest, teacher, theology, philosopher, activist, poet, uncle and brother was always played with humility. He opened the original catholic ministry in spirituality in the wider community and its place in Christianity. His role as a priest, teacher, theology, philosopher, activist, poet, uncle and brother. He opened the original catholic ministry in 1980. -
Eddie Mabo
On 20 May 1982, Koiki and fellow Mer Islanders, Reverend David Passi, Celuia Mapo Salee, Sam Passi and James Rice began their legal claim in the High Court of Australia for ownership of their lands on the island of Mer. -
Native Title
Native title is the recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have rights and interests to land and waters according to their traditional law and customs as set out in Australian Law. Native Title is governed by the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). -
Catholicism becomes largest religious group
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Edward Bede Clancy
Edward Bede Clancy AC (13 December 1923 – 3 August 2014) was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988. -
Wik People
The Wik peoples are an Indigenous Australian group of people from an extensive zone on western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, speaking several different languages. They are from the coastal flood plains bounding the Gulf of Carpentaria lying between Pormpuraaw (Edward River) and Weipa, and inland the forested country drained by the Archer, Kendall and Holroyd rivers. -
World Youth Day (WYD)
WYD 2008 was the first World Youth Day to take full advantage of telecommunications, with Pope Benedict sending text messages to the pilgrims during the week. Each pilgrim who registered for WYD had the option of providing a mobile phone number to which the Pontiff's message would be sent at the beginning of each day. -
Islam on the census