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Kathleen Mary Egan
Dominican Sister and educationist, was born on 16 December 1890 at The Rock, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, third child of Richard Egan, a railway stationmaster from Ireland, and his native-born wife Catherine, née Connors. -
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. -
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Father John Brosnan
Prison Chaplain Was Capital Punishment Foe. Father John Brosnan, a Jesuit priest who read the last rites to the last man executed in Australia after unsuccessfully campaigning to spare his life, died Wednesday of undisclosed causes in Melbourne. -
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Edward Bede Clancy
Edward Bede Clancy AC 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. -
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Fr Frank Fletcher
Fletcher was ordained a priest in 1956 at St Mary's Cathedral and, in 1957, was appointed to teach at Chevalier College, near Bowral. Many of his students remained devoted to him in adulthood. One of them, former NSW premier John Fahey, said Fletcher inspired in him "a wonderful sense of humanity and justice". -
Caritas begins in Australia
Caritas began in Australia in 1962 as the Catholic Church Relief Fund, which became the Catholic Overseas Relief Committee in 1964. In 1996 the agency became Caritas Australia. The word Caritas comes from Latin, and means love and compassion. -
Mabo
On 3 June 1992, the High Court of Australia decided that terra nullius should not have been applied to Australia. This decision known as the Mabo decision recognised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have rights to the land rights that existed before the British arrived and can still exist today. -
Native Title
Native title is the recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have rights and interests to land and waters according to their traditional law and customs as set out in Australian Law. Native Title is governed by the Native Title Act 1993