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The Marist Brothers arrived in Australia in 1872 at the invitation of the Archbishop of Sydney.
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Moran was appointed to Australia on the 25 January 1884 and arrived on 8 September 1884. He was created Cardinal-Priest on 27 July 1885 of the title of St Susanna.
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On 8 May 1893, the Maronite Patriarch sent two priests to Sydney, having realized the need to establish a Maronite Mission in Australia. In 1894, a Maronite chapel was set up in Waterloo and served until 1897.
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Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901, when the British Parliament passed legislation enabling the six Australian colonies to collectively govern in their own right as the Commonwealth of Australia.
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The De La Salle Brothers arrived in Australia in 1906 to establish Catholic schools.
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Daniel Mannix arrived in Melbourne in the following year as coadjutor archbishop, becoming archbishop of Melbourne in 1917
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Bob Santamaria was born in Melbourne, Australia
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The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors
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The Australian Labor Party split for the third time in its history, this time over anti-communist sentiment.
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