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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210213T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210213T235959
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SUMMARY:2008: Apology to the Stolen Generation by the Australian Government
DESCRIPTION:On this day Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized to Indigenous Australians\, and especially the Stolen Generation\, for past government policies of removing First Nations children from their families. The National Museum of Australia explains here how the journey to a national apology began with the Bringing Them Home Report. \n\n\n\nWatch the apology in the video below.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2008-apology-to-the-stolen-generation-by-the-australian-government-2021-02-13/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210213T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210213T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20191219T034516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T034520Z
UID:753-1613174400-1613260799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2015: Death of Faith Bandler AC
DESCRIPTION:Faith Bandler AC\, activist for Indigenous and South Sea Islander rights\, passed away on this day in 2005. An obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald highlighted her achievements: \n\n\n\nFaith Bandler changed people’s hearts and minds in support of human rights and social justice. Her smile\, no doubt\, helped. The National Trust listed her as a national living treasure in 1997 and the Herald\, in 2001\, included her among the 100 most influential Australians of the 20th century. The Good Weekend\, in 2011\, included her in a list of 50 women considered the most influential in the world. \n\n\n\nHer greatest achievement was her 10-year campaign for Aboriginal rights leading to the 1967 referendum which changed the Constitution and included Aborigines in the census. She worked for Aboriginal education and housing\, was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and the Australian Republican Movement\, campaigned for the rights of South Sea Islanders and wrote six books\, including Wacvie (1977)\, a biographical novel about her father. \n\n\n\nRead the full text here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2015-death-of-faith-bandler-ac-2021-02-13/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210312T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210312T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200106T041611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T041614Z
UID:873-1615507200-1615593599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1913: Founding of Canberra as Australia's captial
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1913-founding-of-canberra-as-australias-captial-2021-03-12/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210315T080000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210321T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20210212T015934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210212T050516Z
UID:4459-1615795200-1616346000@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:Harmony Week
DESCRIPTION:Australia celebrates Harmony Week in the days leading up to the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It is a time to celebrate cultural diversity and share the message that everyone belongs. \n\n\n\nFind out about Harmony Week events near you here. It is a great time to reflect on chapters 6 and 7 of Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship). \n\n\n\n“The image of a polyhedron can represent a society where differences coexist\, complementing\, enriching and reciprocally illuminating one another\, even amid disagreements and reservations. Each of us can learn something from others.” Pope Francis\, Fratelli Tutti\, n 215.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/harmony-week/
CATEGORIES:Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210318T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210318T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200106T045734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T044417Z
UID:4217-1616025600-1616111999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2019: Death of Deacon Boniface Perdjert
DESCRIPTION:Deacn Boniface\, a respected Elder and the first Aboriginal permanent deacon\, passed away in 2019. As the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council’s tribute page for Deacon Boniface says: \n\n\n\nHis words and actions spoke loudly to the members of the Wadeye Community – of which he was a deeply loved and respected Elder – but also to the Catholic Hierarchy with whom he shared his wisdom on many official occasions.  http://www.natsicc.org.au/a-tribute-to-deacon-boniface.html \n\n\n\nOn the first anniversary of Deacon Boniface’s death we share for your reflection these words that he wrote in the later 1970s: \n\n\n\nGod did not begin to take an interest in people with the incarnation of his Son\, nor with Abraham. My people existed here in Australia thousands of years before Abraham. In all that time God was with my people. He worked through their culture. He was saving us despite human weakness. He was preparing us for the day when he would see the features of Aboriginals in the image of his Son. So i must recognize\, I must use the things of God that are in my culture. I mus use them in his service. If I do not do this\, my faith and my service are shallow. They are pretending. They belong to someone else\, not me. God has asked us t love him with wjhole mind\, heart and soul. So i must give myself to God as an Aboriginal. This is what God wants or he would not have made me what I am.  http://www.natsicc.org.au/a-tribute-to-deacon-boniface.html
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2019-death-of-deacon-boniface-perdjert-2021-03-18/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210318T080000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210318T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20210112T063800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T063808Z
UID:4274-1616054400-1616086800@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:National Close the Gap Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/national-close-the-gap-day/
CATEGORIES:Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210319T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210319T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200106T050012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T050015Z
UID:896-1616112000-1616198399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1866: Beginning of Sisters of St Joseph at Penola\, SA
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1866-beginning-of-sisters-of-st-joseph-at-penola-sa-2021-03-19/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210320T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210320T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200106T050508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T050512Z
UID:908-1616198400-1616284799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
DESCRIPTION:This national day is observed in Australia. Find resources to help you to mark this day here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/national-day-of-action-against-bullying-and-violence-2021-03-20/
CATEGORIES:Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210323T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210323T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200106T052020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T052023Z
UID:946-1616457600-1616543999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2005: Abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2005-abolition-of-the-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-commission-atsic-2021-03-23/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210325T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210325T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200106T052836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T052840Z
UID:964-1616630400-1616716799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1877: Death of Caroline Chisholm
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1877-death-of-caroline-chisholm-2021-03-25/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210329T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210329T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200106T054343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T054346Z
UID:982-1616976000-1617062399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1941: Death of William Cooper
DESCRIPTION:William Cooper was an inspirational Aboriginal leader in New South Wales and Victoria in the early part of the 20th century and a founding secretary of the Australian Aborigines’ League. The league was created to lobby state and federal governments on behalf of Aboriginal people.  The powerful symbolic gesture of a Day of Mourning on 26 January\, along with a petition to the British monarch calling for Aboriginal representation in federal parliament\, inspired generations of activists working for justice for Indigenous Australians.  National Museum of Australia
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1941-death-of-william-cooper-2021-03-29/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210401T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210401T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200115T053556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T053639Z
UID:1152-1617235200-1617321599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1897: Death of Jandamarra
DESCRIPTION:Jandamarra was an Aboriginal resistance leader of the Bunuba people in Western Australia. Find our more about his story here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1897-death-of-jandamarra-2021-04-01/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210405T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210405T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200117T030432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200117T030436Z
UID:1185-1617580800-1617667199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1997: Bringing Them Home Report published
DESCRIPTION:The report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families was published on this day in 1997. Read the Bringing Them Home Report here and access information and teaching resources on the Stolen Generations here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1997-bringing-them-home-report-published-2021-04-05/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210415T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210415T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092637
CREATED:20200121T053634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T021723Z
UID:1229-1618444800-1618531199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1991: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission Final Report signed
DESCRIPTION:13th Station: Jesus’ Body is Taken Down from the Cross by Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann AO\n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\n“… and you will know the truth\, and the truth will make you free.” John 8: 32\n\n\n\nThe 1991 Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission Final Report was a painful and key step in the process of radical truth telling in regard to the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia\, especially when in police custody. There were over 300 recommendation from this report\, and many are still to be implemented. 434 Indigenous people have died in custody since 1991. There is still much listening and work to do to achieve real justice for all Australians. \n\n\n\nFrom the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart: \n\n\n\n“Proportionally\, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future. These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.  We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.”  From the Uluru Statement from the Heart\, 2017\n\n\n\nPrayer\n\n\n\nReconciliation Prayer \n\n\n\nHoly Father\, God of Love\,\nYou are the Creator of all things.\nWe acknowledge the pain and shame of our history\nand the sufferings of Our peoples\,\nand we ask your forgiveness.\nWe thank you for the survival of Indigenous cultures.\n\nOur hope is in you because you gave your Son Jesus\nto reconcile the world to you.\nWe pray for your strength and grace to forgive\, accept and love one another\,\nas you love us and forgive and accept us in the sacrifice of your Son.\n\nGive us the courage to accept the realities of our history\nso that we may build a better future for our Nation.\n\nTeach us to respect all cultures.\nTeach us to care for our land and waters.\nHelp us to share justly the resources of this land.\nHelp us to bring about spiritual and social change to improve the quality of life for all groups in our communities\, especially the disadvantaged.\nHelp young people to find true dignity and self-esteem by your Spirit.\n\nMay your power and love be the foundations on which we build our families\,\nour communities and our Nation\, through Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\nAmen.\n\n\n\nFrom the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council\, Wontulp Bi-Buya Indigenous Theology Working Group 13 March 1997 Brisbane\, Qld. \n\n\n\nMusic\n\n\n\nFirst Nation (2020) by Midnight Oil from The Makarrata Project                      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                    
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1991-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-royal-commission-final-report-signed-2021-04-15/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200121T234620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200121T234624Z
UID:1278-1619568000-1619654399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1998: Death of Shirley 'Mum Shirl' Smith\, Aboriginal community leader
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1998-death-of-shirley-mum-shirl-smith-aboriginal-community-leader-2021-04-28/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210503T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210503T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200129T002604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T002607Z
UID:1327-1620000000-1620086399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1990: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission established
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1990-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-commission-established-2021-05-03/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210505T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210505T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200207T033033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T045657Z
UID:1376-1620172800-1620259199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2016: Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen appointed Bishop of Parramatta
DESCRIPTION:Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv is the first Vietnamese born bishop to lead a diocese outside of Vietnam and the first Vietnamese born bishop in Australia.  He was born in 1961 in Dong Nai in Vietnam. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975\, his family has been dispersed. \n\n\n\nIn 1984\, Vincent Long became a professed Conventual Franciscan friar (OFM Conv) and studied for the priesthood in Melbourne. After his priestly ordination on 30 December in 1989\, he was sent to Rome for further studies and was awarded a licentiate in Christology and Spirituality from the Pontifical Faculty of St Bonaventure. \n\n\n\nHe served as an assistant and then parish priest for seven years in Kellyville within the Diocese of Parramatta and for seven years in Springvale in Victoria before being elected Superior of the Order of Friars Minor Conventuals in Australia in 2005. He served as Assistant General in Rome from 2008 until 2011\, responsible for the Asia-Oceania section of his Order. \n\n\n\nIn 2011\, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne in which role he served for nearly five years.  On 16 June 2016\, Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv was installed as the fourth Bishop of Parramatta at St Patrick’s Cathedral\, Parramatta.  \n\n\n\nFind out more about Bishop Vincent here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2016-bishop-vincent-long-van-nguyen-appointed-bishop-of-parramatta-2021-05-05/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210506T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210506T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200228T045915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T045918Z
UID:1471-1620259200-1620345599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1992: Introduction of mandatory detention of asylum seekers in Australia
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1992-introduction-of-mandatory-detention-of-asylum-seekers-in-australia-2021-05-06/
CATEGORIES:Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200228T051346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051350Z
UID:1485-1620432000-1620518399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1970: First anti-Vietnam War Moratorium march in Australia
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1970-first-anti-vietnam-war-moratorium-march-in-australia-2021-05-08/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200228T051507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051511Z
UID:1489-1620432000-1620518399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1997: Wik 'Ten Point Plan' to extinguish native title announced
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1997-wik-ten-point-plan-to-extinguish-native-title-announced-2021-05-08/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210517T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210517T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200228T053410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T052259Z
UID:1529-1621209600-1621295999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2005: Death of Fr Ted Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2005-death-of-fr-ted-kennedy-2021-05-17/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210526T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210526T235900
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200306T055206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T073404Z
UID:1578-1621987200-1622073540@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:National Sorry Day
DESCRIPTION:Our Home (2019) – Patrice Muthaymiles-Mahoney OAM (1975 – )\n\n\n\n\n\nSorry Day has been observed since 1998\, one year after the Bringing Them Home report was presented in the Australian Federal Parliament. This report detailed the impact of the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sorry Day offers an opportunity to reflect on the hardship faced when children were taken into institutional and foster care by governments and church agencies and placed with non-Indigenous families. These Stolen Generations suffered greatly from being removed from their loved ones at such an early age\, and for many the scars were life-long. However\, Sorry Day is also an opportunity to “acknowledge the strength of Stolen Generations Survivors and reflect on how we can all play a part in the healing process for our people and nation.”  \n\n\n\nGoing Deeper\n\n\n\nhttps://www.reconciliation.org.au \n\n\n\nPrayer\n\n\n\nAlmighty and loving God\,  you who created ALL people in your image.  \n\n\n\nLead us to seek your compassion as we listen to the stories of our past.  You gave your only Son\, Jesus\, who died and rose again  so that sins will be forgiven.  \n\n\n\nWe place before you the pain and anguish of dispossession  of land\, language\, lore\, culture\, and family kinship that  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have experienced.  We live in faith that all people will rise  from the depths of despair and hopelessness.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families have endured the pain and loss of loved ones\, through the separation of children from their families.  \n\n\n\nWe are sorry and ask God’s forgiveness.  \n\n\n\nTouch the hearts of the broken\, homeless\, and inflicted and heal their spirits.   \n\n\n\nIn your mercy and compassion walk with us  as we continue our journey of healing  to create a future that is just and equitable.  \n\n\n\nLord\, you are our hope. Amen.  \n\n\n\nAboriginal and Islander Commission of the National Council of Churches in Australia\, (NATSIEC) 2003.  \n\n\n\nArtwork\n\n\n\nOur Home (2019) by Patrice Muthaymiles-Mahoney OAM (1975 – )  \n\n\n\nMusic\n\n\n\nTook the Children Away by Archie Roach.  \n\n\n\n\n\nTook The Children Away – Archie Roach
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/national-sorry-day/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210526T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210526T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200306T055600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T062114Z
UID:1586-1621987200-1622073599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2017: Uluru Statement from the Heart made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders
DESCRIPTION:People talking to Jesus in the Bough Shed (1995) – Queenie McKenzie\n\n\n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\nThe Uluru Statement was issued in May 2017 on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Australian referendum. In 1967\, Australians voted to amend the Australian Constitution\, allowing the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people and to include them in the census. 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders have endorsed the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart after an exhaustive and comprehensive two-year consultation process around Australia that was designed and led by Aboriginal people. Targeted structural change is called for through the Statement by establishing an ongoing First Nations Voice to Parliament\, and a Makarrata Commission ‘to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history’. In 1967\, Aboriginal people were counted as citizens of their own nation. Today\, they seek to be fully heard\, to walk with others\, and to build a better future for all Australians. \n\n\n\nRead the Statement here.  \n\n\n\nPrayer for Reconciliation\n\n\n\nGod of all creation\,as we journey together in this Great Southern Land\,we pray for healing\, forgiveness and unity\,creating a path of good will\, with justice and compassion. \n\n\n\nJesus\, through the power of your love\,you have given us the courage\, wisdom and strengthto share our gifts and talents in humility. \n\n\n\nIn peace and understanding we reconcile with each other. \n\n\n\nCreator Spirit\, we come together in prayer and thanksgivingfor the many blessings we have received.Allow your Spirit to wash over us and give us strength to walk together as one. \n\n\n\nAmen \n\n\n\nAboriginal Elder women and Reconciliation Church staff members\, 2014. \n\n\n\nMusic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVoice\, Treaty\, Truth\, Now by Felix Riebl and Ollie McGillsung by Spinifex Gum and Marliya Choirs
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2017-uluru-statement-from-the-heart-made-by-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-leaders/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210526T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210526T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200306T055344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T055348Z
UID:1584-1621987200-1622073599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1997: Bringing Them Home Report tabled in Parliament
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1997-bringing-them-home-report-tabled-in-parliament-2021-05-26/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210527T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210527T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200306T055912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T055920Z
UID:1594-1622073600-1622159999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1967: Referendum allows the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people and count them in the census
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1967-referendum-allows-the-commonwealth-to-make-laws-for-aboriginal-people-and-count-them-in-the-census-2021-05-27/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210528T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210528T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200306T060023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T060029Z
UID:1598-1622160000-1622246399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2000: 250\,000 people walk for reconciliation in Sydney
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2000-250000-people-walk-for-reconciliation-in-sydney-2021-05-28/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210529T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210529T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200306T060314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T060319Z
UID:1606-1622246400-1622332799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1992: Launch of the Torres Strait Islander Flag
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1992-launch-of-the-torres-strait-islander-flag-2021-05-29/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210603T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210603T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200318T064725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T072830Z
UID:1636-1622678400-1622764799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1992: High Court Decision in the Mabo Case
DESCRIPTION:Eddie Mabo – Marc Nemorin\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 29th anniversary of the Mabo Decision where six out of seven High Court judges agreed that the Meriam people held traditional ownership of the lands of Mer in the Torres Strait. Eddie Koiki Mabo successfully argued that his family’s ancestral land was not owned by the Crown. This landmark decision in the High Court of Australia overturned ‘terra nullius’\, an understanding that Australia was empty land belonging to no one before British occupation. The decision paved the way for native title in the Native Title Act of 1993. Eddie died before the decision was handed down in 1992 but his life leaves a powerful legacy: the traditional connection and occupation of land by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is now recognised in law across Australia.  \n\n\n\nGoing Deeper: \n\n\n\nhttps://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/mabo-decision  \n\n\n\nPrayer:\n\n\n\nPrayer for Unity  \n\n\n\nCreator God\,  may the power of Your grace transform us.  \n\n\n\nChrist\, give us courage and hope to manifest the unity we have in you\, and to share our life with each other and the world.  \n\n\n\nHoly Spirit\,  empower us to work for justice for the people of the earth.  \n\n\n\nGod\, in your grace\, transform the world.  \n\n\n\nAmen.  \n\n\n\nThe National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission (NATSIEC)  of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA)\, 2007.  \n\n\n\nArtwork:\n\n\n\nEddie Mabo by Marc Nemorin  \n\n\n\nMusic:\n\n\n\nKoiki by Mau Power\, featuring Radical Son  \n\n\n\n\n\nKoiki by Mau Power\, featuring Radical Son 
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1992-high-court-decision-in-the-mabo-case-2021-06-03/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210604T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210604T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200318T065145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T052757Z
UID:4227-1622764800-1622851199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2000: 50\,000 people Walk for Reconciliation in Brisbane
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2000-50000-people-walk-for-reconciliation-in-brisbane-2021-06-04/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210608T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210608T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T092638
CREATED:20200331T053828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200525T052009Z
UID:1727-1623110400-1623196799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2004: Queensland Bishops issue 'Let the Many Coastlands be glad!' Pastoral Letter on the Great Barrier Reef
DESCRIPTION:“The Holy Spirit is clearly guiding us into a deeper sense ofcompanionship and care in regard to all the varied forms of life onplanet Earth. Not only is the Reef a precious ecosystem in itself\, but alsoan integral part of the one web of planetary life that connects us all –the human species and all species of the land and sea\, rainforest andreef\, mountains\, plains and inland desert.” Catholic Bishops of Queensland\, Let the Many Coastlands be Glad!\, 2004\n\n\n\nToday is a great day to read Let the Many Coastlands Be Glad! again. \n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\nImagine you were helping the Queensland Bishops to draft a pastoral letter on the Great Barrier Reef today. What has changed for the Great Barrier Reef since Let the Many Coastlands Be Glad! was published? Are there new issues to address? How might you take the teaching of Pope Francis into account in updating the Queensland Bishops’ teaching?
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2004-queensland-bishops-issue-let-the-many-coastlands-be-glad-pastoral-letter-on-the-great-barrier-reef-2021-06-08/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
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