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Kathleen Mary Egan,
Dominican Sister and educationist, -
white australia policy
The White Australia policy is a term encapsulating a set of historical racial policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic origin, especially Asians and Pacific Islanders, from immigrating to Australia, starting in 1901. -
Elizabeth Durack
Elizabeth Durack Clancy CMG, OBE was a Western Australian artist and writer -
Fr John Brosnan
1945, he was ordained by Archbishop Mannix at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Melbourne. -
Edward Bede Clancy
Edward Bede Clancy AC was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal -
Fr Frank Fletcher
One of the founders of the Archdiocese of Sydney's Aboriginal Catholic Ministry and one of the city's most well-known and beloved priests. -
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. -
Catholicism becomes largest religious group
Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity with 1.329 billion and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. -
Caritas begins in Australia
Caritas began in Australia in 1962 as the Catholic Church Relief Fund -
Mabo, Wik
In 1996, the Wik and Thayorre people of Queensland claimed native title over land that was also covered by pastoral leases. Asserting that native title could -
Islam on the census
Islam and Australian Aboriginal traditional beliefs were the religions with the youngest median age (27 years), -
Buddhism on the census
Buddhist affiliated population had grown from 418,749 to 528,977 people, an increase of 20.8%. ... The states and territories with the highest proportion of Buddhists are Victoria -
WYD 2008
World Youth Day 2008 was a Catholic youth festival that started on 15 July and continued until 20 July 2008 in Sydney, Australia. It was the first World Youth Day held in Australia