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Kathleen Mary Egan
In 1931, after teaching in Tamworth and Mayfield, both in New South Wales, she was appointed to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Waratah, Newcastle, New South Wales. Believing that 'the deaf child has tastes, dislikes, ambitions similar to those of her unhandicapped sister', she introduced the State curriculum (using conventional textbooks where possible) and was, thus, responsible for considerable reforms of education for the deaf in New South Wales. -
Fr John Brosnan
Ordained a priest by his greatest hero, Archbishop Daniel Mannix, in 1945, Father Brosnan spent eight years beside Mannix at St Patrick's, before working 30 years as Catholic chaplain at Pentridge. He retired from parish ministry in 1998. -
Elizabeth Durack
Her portraits of Aboriginal people have made their way to galleries across the globe. Durack's first exhibition was in 1946 and she was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1966. In the 1990s, however, she produced works under the name “Eddie Burrup”, some of which were included in exhibitions of Aboriginal art. -
Fr Frank Fletcher
As director of vocations for the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the turbulent 1960s and '70s, Fletcher recognised the time of social change and, with the support of Australian bishops, founded St Paul's National Seminary in Kensington in 1968 for men with late vocations (St Paul's closed in 1998) -
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.