Tag: Indigenous Australians

IT is a long road trip from Brisbane to Cherbourg to visit the community’s Ration Shed museum, but it is ...

RENOWNED Australian Aboriginal elder, educator and artist Dr Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann AM is to meet with Pope Francis next ...

SAINT Patrick’s College, Townsville hosted the 2022 National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) assembly this week.  NATSICC Chair ...

SO many people had a story to share about the late Ngugi elder Aunty Joan Hendriks, Turrbal elder Uncle Joe ...

AS one of the youngest members of the Plenary Council, 24-year-old Thomas Warren, says ecological conversion was, for him, the ...

SEVEN hours drive west of Brisbane is a tiny school with 31 students who are making strides learning the local ...

Building unity: Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann is the 2021 Northern Territory Senior Australian of the Year. ABORIGINAL elder Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, 2021 Senior ...

Pattie Lees: “I want to be a good ancestor for my children and my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren, and leave ...

Standing up: Augustinian Father Robert Greenup (left), parish priest at St Thomas of Villanova, Mareeba, and who visits remote communities ...

Always welcome: Good Samaritan Sister Liz Wiemers (right) at Santa Teresa, Northern Territory, with Paula Turner. HER grandmother, a cattle ...

Taking a stand: A crowd of up to 30,000 that packed inner city Brisbane on June 6, to protest police ...

Local legend: Queensland Great Mount Isa parish priest Fr Mick Lowcock has been giving his all in pastoral work, social ...

Archbishop Coleridge: “And until the wound of that vast injustice is healed – and it's far from healed – but ...

Powered by faith: Reconciliation Action Plan officer for Evangelisation Brisbane Cynthia Rowan cherishes the rosary beads blessed by Pope John ...

Prison point: “(The annual Human Rights Watch report) said more than half of Australia’s prison population had some kind of ...

Laid to rest: Sam Watson in 2016. He lamented the number of Aboriginal children being taken from their families and ...

Schooling milestone: Brisbane Catholic schools’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander class of 2019. IT was the end of 12 years ...

Inspirational speaker: Panellist and 2016 Churchill Fellow Dr Doseena Fergie with Bevan Bin Garape. THE future for Indigenous Australians is ...

Toni Janke: “The thing I love the most about driving across the Story Bridge every day, is thinking, ‘Well, God, ...

Ravina Waldren: “It will be up to Ken (Wyatt) to interact and engage with communities, including here in Queensland, and ...

Complex debate: “The complex relationship between white Australia and its Indigenous people makes the notion of Australia Day an abstract ...

Blessed day: Cynthia Rowan treasures her rosary beads blessed by Pope John Paul II. Photo: Mark Bowling CYNTHIA Rowan treasures ...

Losing battle: Brisbane Indigenous community leader Sam Watson is concerned for the next generation of indigenous.BRISBANE indigenous community elder Sam ...

Shaping lives: Majella Ritchie (left) with Aboriginal twins Pheonix and Havana Withers, Prep students at St Flannan’s primary school, Zillmere.MAJELLA ...

Bishop Christopher Saunders: “After 200 years of colonisation and dispossession, surely out of fairness we owe something to Australia’s First ...