Catholic Churches In Australia

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  • First Catholics In Australia

    The Catholics In Australia were convicts. Approximately 40,000 Irish convicts came to Australia between 1788 and 1868

  • 1820

    The first catholic priests, fathers therry and conolly arrived.

  • Early foundations of catholic schools

    The first catholic churches are being built and by 1861 there were catholic bishops in sydney, hobart, adelaide, perth, melbourne and brisbane.

  • 1866

    Mary mackilop and st julian tennison wood founded the sisters of st joseph, and had opened schools for poor rural children throughout south australia.

  • 1872

    The colanial governments gave money to any denomination that wanted to run schools, since there was no development state system of education at the time.

  • Catholics and the labor party

    The labor Party in Austrlaia began in the 1890s from the trade union movement. From the beginnning of the twentieth century, as Federation became a reality, a great many Catholics joined the labor party.

  • Cardinal Moran and federation

    In 1895 a state premiers' conference agreed that there would be elections for a federal convention. The task of this convention would be to decide how to form a federal government on Australia.

  • post-war immigration

    IN 1901, the government had passed the discriminatory Immigration Restriction Act. This meant that only people with 'white' skin were accepted as migrants.

  • Disappointment with the labor party

    by 1910, when the labor party won victory in both state and federal elections, it became obvious that their large numbers of catholic members had helped them win.

  • Dr Mannix and Conscription

    In april 1916 in Ireland, there was a rebellion against british rule, and Catholics in Australia belived that it had been provoked by the British.

  • Religious education and irish spirituality

    religious education in catholic schools wre centred on a little book, rewritten in 1937, and later called 'the little green catechism'.

  • 1967

    aboriginal people were gradually given the rights that other australians take for granted, but it was only in 1967 that they were allowed to vote.