WHEN Antoine Callope Tucker stepped into the grounds of St Patrick’s College, Shorncliffe, his new black leather shoes weren’t the only discomfort. It was 2013 and the Year 8 student was somewhat bothered by his well-pressed dress shirt and tie. But the greatest contrast to his former schooling in Normanton, near the Gulf of Carpentaria, was the northern Brisbane college’s ... Read More »
POPE Pius IX looked down on a young Aboriginal boy from Western Australia and declared that he would be his country’s next Francis Xavier. Conaci, an indigenous name that means “black cockatoo”, was seven years old when he was sent to study in Rome, with the hope of returning to evangelise his country. The young boy left Australia in 1849 ... Read More »
SHE looked up from a pair of shiny shoes twinkling under the moonlit sky to see the face of an unrelenting priest with his arms folded. A pair of friends had been caught red-handed chattering away in one on of the alcoves of Sts Peter and Paul Church, Bulimba, during the scheduled school mission days. One of the students was ... Read More »
WHEN Stephanie Archibald had her two children, the midwives who attended the birth were so wonderful she was inspired to switch her studies to become one herself. Ms Archibald, a Bigambul woman, whose traditional country straddles the inland border between Queensland and New South Wales, changed from studying forensic science at QUT, to a three-year Bachelor of Midwifery degree at Australian ... Read More »
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