The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

DAVID Miller is an Aboriginal man who wasn’t raised in his people’s traditional ways and he wonders how different his life may have been. He’s a man well-known to many Brisbane Catholics as the one who breaks the silence playing the clap sticks at the start of Masses and liturgies for major celebrations in St Stephen’s Cathedral. It’s a ritual ... Read More »

BLACK eyes, stabbings and sexual assaults.  These are the common attacks on women and children in Queensland’s indigenous communities, inflicted with such prevalence by spouses that domestic violence is considered to be part of “every day” life. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 34 times more likely to be hospitalised from domestic violence and 10 times more likely to ... Read More »