The Pioneering Spirit of Catholic Education in Australia:
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...
The Pioneering Spirit of Catholic Education in Australia:
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...
The Pioneering Spirit of Catholic Education in Australia: Presentation Sisters
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 Presentation...
The Pioneering Spirit of Catholic Education in Australia: The Society of The Faithful Companions of Jesus
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...
Memories from the past: Goulburn schools strike and the impact on Catholic school funding
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...
Memories from the past: Saint Mary MacKillop’s contribution to Australian Catholic education
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...
Memories from the past: Jesuits
Above: Principal Matt Smith and students from Redfern Jarjum College 2020. The Jesuit Fathers arrived in Australia from Austria in 1848. The Society of Jesus established their first school in 1856 which was the first Catholic boys school in South Australia, St...
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