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Lay couple Mary and Michael Burke, established the first catholic school funded entirely by money collected from local catholic settlers.
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Brisbane Catholic Education started with only one school fifty six students and two teachers.
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Bishop James Quinn, five priests and six Irish sisters made their way to Brisbane aboard the yarra yarra. They committed to raise the economic and social status thru education.
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1870's was when the divide between the Irish Catholic and English Protestants came a push to keep church and state separate.
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Catholic Schools continued to be self-funded and it would be another half century before Catholic Schools would be funded by the government.
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Bernard O'Shea was appointed as diocesan inspector.
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The role renamed to Diocesan Director of Catholic Education.
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Major changes occurred Nationwide in school funding after the Goulburn school strike.
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The first Australian born Archbishop Francis Rush was appointed in 1973.
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Despite Schools getting funded, Catholic Schools in Brisbane continued to struggle with increasing costs.
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Brisbane Catholic Education now has 139 schools 72,000 students and 11,000 employee's.
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After forty years as director of Catholic Education father Bernard O'Shea was replaced by the first lay director Ector Vince or Orc.