Keywords: Aboriginal Spirituality
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 27 August 2010
With an Aboriginal mother and Irish American Catholic father, Joan Hendriks is a bridge figure between the Indigenous and Catholic worlds. Her life's goal is to bring these two realms into productive engagement. By Peter Kirkwood
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
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When Fr Julian Tenison Woods was no longer welcome in the south, he came and conducted scientific expeditions and parish missions in Queensland. In 1881, he conducted a parish mission in Maryborough, where he got Martin Brennan, my
great-grandfather, off the grog and back to church.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
Fr Frank Brennan SJ's address at the Commemoration of Julian Tenison Woods Park, Penola SA, 23 Mary 2010
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AUSTRALIA
Christian prayer at public meetings cannot have the same
importance as an acknowledgement of country. Indigenous peoples have a genuine
spiritual association with the land. By recognising this, all
Australians can be united in a non-denominational spirituality.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Toby Davidson
- 27 February 2009
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Sixteen Indigenous authors contribute stories of creation, love and yearning for place. Their
country is one whose ancient landscape and traditions of custodianship
were violently disrupted well before the 2009 fires.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 23 January 2009
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Australia Day comes this year shortly after Obama's entry into the White House. Like the child in Australia — a film that captures something of the mixed history of our Australian footprint — Obama embodies the possibility of
healing across racial and other divides.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris McGillion
- 16 July 2008
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Australians see themselves more as a sunburnt people than as people of a sunburnt country. The Aboriginal smoking ceremony during the Papal Mass introduced a distinctive spirituality where reflection upon the physical environment is key. (April 1995)
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ENVIRONMENT
One of the most devastating effects of European settlement upon Aboriginal people was caused by fencing. Fences have also disrupted normal behaviour of kangaroos, which have come to be regarded as enemies by landowners.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rosemary Crumlin
- 22 January 2008
At Turkey Creek, George Mung had carved a statue out of a piece of tree, a work of extraordinary beauty. Here it was, sitting on top of a hot-water system. 'You take it,' he said, 'I'll do another one.' (Eureka Street March 1991)
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Hill
- 23 December 2006
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After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
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