ISAIAH Levi visited Moa Island, in the Torres Strait, for the first time when he was 16 and he immediately felt at home. Moa Island is the home of his family on his mother’s side. Isaiah, 18, is a Year 12 student at St Columban’s College, Caboolture, and he told his story as part of Brisbane Catholic Education’s Deadly Yarns ... Read More »
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Indigenous schoolboy from Normanton joins alumni at Shorncliffe’s St Patrick’s College
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 »
Indigenous student sent to Rome in honour of Aboriginal boy who died training for the priesthood
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 »
Respected Aboriginal elder Aunty Joan Hendriks revisits her childhood church
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 »
Midwifery student has dream to see more indigenous midwives
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 »