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In 1770 Captain James Cook annexed New Zealand.
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Captain Arthur Philip lead the fleet of 11 ships to Australia to make the first settlement there.
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Around 40,000 Irish convicts came to Australia between 1788 and 1868. Most of these people were transported for theft and violence, a large number were transported for "riot and sedition".
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In 1788 Sydney was established.
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In 1798 in Ireland there had been a particularly violent rebellion, this caused the mistrust and suspicion with which all Catholics were regarded by the authorities.
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This fear of and bigotry against Catholics was fuelled by the clergy of the Church of New England and other Protestant denominations. This lasted until the 1800s.
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In 1803 Risdon was established.
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In 1804 William Johnson assembled 300 men outside of Sydney and lead them in a rebellion.
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In 1804 Launceston was established.
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In 1804 Hobart was established.
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Norfolk Island was occupied from 1788-1814.
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Norfolk Island was evacuated from 1807-1814.
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In 1820 Fathers Therry and Conolly were the first Catholic Priests in Australia.
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In 1824 Moreton Bay was settled.
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Van Diemens land was a part of New South Wales until 1825.
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The first Catholic Churches in Australia were built in 1830.
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The Sisters of the Good Samaritan was founded by Archbishop Polding in 1857
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In 1861 there were Catholic bishops in Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Broom.
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In 1866 Mary MacKillop and Father Julian Tennison woods founded the Sisters of St Joseph.
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Until 1872 the Government gave money to any denomination that wanted to run schools.
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In 1872 in Victoria, and very soon in other Australian colonies, the state government passed a series of education acts. All education for children was free, compulsory and secular.
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Archbishop Roger Vaughan has been called the architect of Catholic education in Australia. He arrived in Australia from England in 1873.
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Returning to England to recruit more teachers for the schools, Roger Vaughan died there in 1883 aged 49.
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The labor party began in Australia in the 1890s from the trade union movement.
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Archbishops become politically active especially in the labor party which had arisen from the trade union movement in 1891.
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In 1895 a state premiers' conference agreed that there would be elections for a federal election.
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In 1905 a pastoral letter to the Australian people, was sent and in it Australia bishops declared labor party was socialist only in that it worked to redress the wrongs and to alleviate the miseries of the labouring poor.
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Religious education in the Catholic schools, from this time up until the 1950s, centered on a little book rewritten in 1937. Late called 'The Little Green Catechism'
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In 1962, the Menzies Government amended the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to enable all Indigenous Australians to enrol to vote in Australian federal elections.
