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Kathleen Mary Egan
Described as a 'woman of great strength', Kathleen Egan was a Dominican Sister and educationist with a commitment to improving educational opportunities for children with hearing disabilities. -
Elizabeth Durack
Elizabeth Durack was a 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. -
Fr John Brosnan
Father Brosnan is perhaps best remembered for his 30 years of service as the Chaplain of Victoria's Pentridge Prison. It was there he counselled Ronald Ryan before his execution in 1967. -
Edward Bede Clancy
Edward Bede Clancy AC 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. -
Fr Frank Fletcher
Fletcher was ordained a priest in 1956 at St Mary's Cathedral and, in 1957, was appointed to teach at Chevalier College, near Bowral. Many of his students remained devoted to him in adulthood. -
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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. -
Vatican II
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world. -
White Australia Policy
In 1973 the Whitlam Labor government definitively renounced the White Australia policy. In its place it established a policy of multiculturalism in a nation that is now home to migrants from nearly 200 different countries. -
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). -
Mabo
Edward Koiki Mabo was an Indigenous Australian man from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and in a landmark decision of the High Court -
Catholicism becomes largest religious group
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Native Title
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians have rights and interests to their land that derive from their traditional laws and customs. -
Wik
Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland is a decision of the High Court of Australia delivered on 23 December 1996 on whether statutory leases extinguish native title rights. -
World youth day (WYD)
World Youth Day 2008 was a catholic youth festival that started on the 15th of July and continued until 20th of July 2008 in Sydney, Australia. It was the first world youth day held in Australia and the first world youth day held in oceania. This meeting decided by pope Benedict XVI, during the cologne world youth day of 2005. Here Pope Benedict made a historical made a historical apology towards and concerning the sexual abuse of children within churches throughout the world.
