1. History of Catholic education in Australia - lessons 1-8

Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for

• approx 60,000 years

• approx 45,000 years

• approx 30,000 years

• approx 10,000 years

At the time of colonisation, approx ______ languages were spoken by different indigenous groups throughout Australia

• 100

• 300

• 500

• 700

The majority of the 40,000 first convicts arriving in Australia between 1788 and 1868 were

• English Anglicans

• Irish Protestants

• English Catholics

• Irish Catholics

The official Church of the NSW colony was

• Church of England

• Catholic

• based on indigenous spirituality connected to the land

• there was no official Church

'The was bitterness, suspicion and antagonism between the colony’s rulers (Church of England) and the Catholics'.

• True, the tension between Ireland and England was brought to the new colony

• False, they left the tension back in their home countries and started afresh

The first official Catholic priests came to the colony in _____ and were _______.

• 1820; Fr Quigley & Fr Donvan

• 1790: Fr Therry & Fr Conolly

• 1890: Fr Madigan & Fr O'Leary

• 1820: Fr Therry & Fr Conolly

Catholic Churches were being built in the 1830s and Catholic schools, like those of other denominations, were funded by the government, as there were no state-run schools. This meant that

• Catholic school were wealthy and employed highly qualified staff

• many orders of nuns, priests and brothers earned a high salary working in Catholic schools

• the funding barely covered costs so often untrained lay (non-religious) people - often ex-convicts staffed these schools

• the Catholic Church used the funding to focus on building Churches and did not use the funds for education

St Mary of the Cross MacKillop and Fr Julian Tennison Woods founded the Sisters of St Joseph in ________, and opened schools for poor rural children throughout __________.

• 1866; Victoria

• 1866; South Australia

• 1901; Tasmania

• 1920; South Australia

The Education Acts 1972 stated that all schools would now be 'free, secular and compulsory'. Secular means....

• not having any connection with religion

• a level of Government

• religions being able to choose their content

• Governments being made up equally of all religious traditions

In defiance of the Education Act of 1872 the Catholic communities were determined to maintain Catholic education in schools as a way to teach their children the faith, often an Irish faith. A key factor in the strength of Catholic schools in Australia in the late 19th century was...

• Mary MacKillop encouraged all religious brothers and sisters to come to the colonies from Ireland

• The bishops brought to Australia many religious orders of women and men who were attracted by the expansive and well resourced schools

• The bishops brought to Australia many religious orders of women and men who taught with very few resources and often without a salary

• The Church at the time established the first International Schools that attracted teachers from a range of countries