Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German monk and theologian.Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catho ...
On 14 November 2007, it was reported that Pearson had accused the Queensland government of Anna Bligh, and the federal Labor opposition led by Kevin Rudd, of "selling out Aborigines," saying that a pl ...
Pearson was born in Cooktown and grew up at Hope Vale, a Lutheran Mission in the Cape York Peninsula. He is the son of Glen Pearson, from the Bagaarrmugu clan, and Ivy Pearson, from the Guggu Yalanji ...
Bede Polding, OSB, (18 October 1794 – 16 March 1877) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop and then Archbishop of Sydney, Australia.Experiences in Sydney Polding and party arrived first in Hobart on 6 ...
Church affiliation The churches with the largest number of members are the Roman Catholic Church in Australia, the Anglican Church of Australia and the Uniting Church in Australia. Pentecostal churche ...
Most towns in Australia have at least one Christian church. One of Australia's oldest is St. James Church, Sydney, built between 1819 and 1824. The historic Anglican church was designed by Governor Ma ...
There are substantial networks of Christian schools associated with the Christian denominations and also some that operate as parachurch organisations. The Catholic education system is the second bigg ...
Since time immemorial in Australia, indigenous people had performed the rites and rituals of the animist religion of the Dreamtime. Portuguese and Spanish Catholics and Dutch and English Protestants w ...
Protectors of Aborigines around Australia included:Victoria (Port Phillip Protectorate, 1839–1849)George Augustus RobinsonWilliam Thomas, (Assistant Protector) 1839-1849Edward Stone Parker, (Assistan ...
1870s 1874. Barrow Creek Massacre. In February Mounted Constable Samuel Gason arrived at Barrow Creek and a police station was opened. Eight days later a group of Kaytetye men attacked the station, ei ...
1789 Great plague like epidemics was seen killing up to fifty or more percent of several tribes neighboring the Sydney settlement. Was it an act of biological warfare and was it smallpox? A recently p ...
For administrative reasons, from 1927 to 1931, the Federal Government divided the Northern Territory into North (population 4,000) and Central Australia (population 500). By July of 1928 (mid-winter), ...
A group of eleven stockmen, consisting of assigned convicts and former convicts, ten of them men of European extraction and one African (John Johnstone), led by a squatter, John Fleming from Mungie Bu ...
Flinders Island was first colonized at least 35,000 years ago, when people made their way across the then-land bridge which is now Bass Strait. A population remained until about 4,500 years ago, succu ...
Truganini was born in 1812 on Bruny Island, south of the Tasmanian capital Hobart, and separated from the Tasmanian mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. She was a daughter of Mangana, Chief of the ...
