History, Memories from the past
Above: Music students at Santa Sabina College Strathfield, 1910. The history of Dominican education in Australia is a story with a number of unique foundation stories. It began on the east coast of Australia in 1867 when eight Dominican Sisters from Dun Laoghaire in...
History, Memories from the past
Above: St Mary’s College Hobart First Presentation School in Australia. The Presentation Sisters’ contribution to Catholic education began in Australia in 1866. Bishop of Hobart (later Archbishop) Daniel Murphy had arranged with the Mother Superior of the...
History, Memories from the past
Above: Students from St Scholastica’s College, Glebe circa early 1900s. The Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict was founded in Sydney by John Bede Polding OSB, Australia’s first Catholic Archbishop, on 2 February 1857. This new...
History, Memories from the past
Above: Genazzano FCJ College students outside the Convent in 1889. Image sourced Genazzano Archives. In the gold rush year of 1851 there were 9000 Catholics in the colony of Victoria and by 1865, there were 100,000. The gold rush had transformed the colony and led the...
History, Memories from the past
Above: The Canberra Times, 17 July 1962. Source: National Museum Australia. During the period of the 1860s to 1880s, Public Instruction Acts were introduced by governments across the colonies offering free, secular and compulsory education. This meant government...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: Penola school house in South Australia. Source: ABC South East SA, Bec Whetham Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop, has had a profound and lasting impact on Catholic education in Australia. Throughout her life, Mary accomplished great things. Mary began...
