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first catholic covicts
the frist catholic convicts were irish convicts and aproximatly 40,000 irish convicts came to australia between 1788 and 1868 -
rebellion in ireland
a particularly violent rebellion by the irsh caused a mistrust and suspicion with which all catholics were regarded with by authorities -
castle hill rebillion
William johnston, an irishman transported for taking part in the 1798 rebellion in ireland assembled three hundred men outside sydney.he led them in rebellion against the goverment at castle hill in n.s.w this was spediliy and violently supressed but it added to the suspicion and hatred by the authorities. farther dixon had his right to say mass revocked -
first officail priest arrives
the first official non convict priest arrived in 1820 they were farthers therry and conolly -
catholic schools begin
the first catholic schools were being built and established -
sisters of the good samitan
the sisters of the good samaritan were founded byarchbishop polding in 1857 -
bishops in schools
catholic bishops were in schools from 1861 in sydney,hobart,adelaid,perth,melbourne and brisbane -
sisters of st joeseph
mary mackillop and farther julian tennison woods founded the sisters of st joeseph in 1866 and started opening schools for the poor rural kids insouth australia -
labor party starts
in 1890 from the trade union movement the l;abor party began -
labor party
catholics started to follow politics and support the labor party -
state premiers conference
a state premiers agreed that ther would be elections for a federal convention cardinal moran spoke strongly for federation -
Immergration resrtiction
The Australian governments passs an immergration act called the white australia policy -
bishops follow labor party
in 1905 bishops declare that they support the labor party -
labor party wins
in 1910 the labor patry won victory in both state and federal elections -
catholic federation
in 1911 catholic federation was formed to help support catholic schools it was supported by the bishops -
anti catholic polititions
In 1914 dr mannix with the support of the catholic federation in victoriabegan a campaine to persuade catholics to only vote for catholic polititions weather they were in the labor party or not.