Tag: NAIDOC Week
Indigenous Catholics keep the fire of faith burning
The “unfinished business” of constitutional recognition of First Nations peoples will now likely fall to the next generation, said Fr Frank Brennan SJ at a Mass in Sydney to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday.
The questions Catholics must ask to keep reconciliation alive
In the wake of the failed Referendum on the Voice to Parliament, Australians are left with uncomfortable questions about our willingness to confront the reality of Indigenous dispossession, writes Fr Peter Smith.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: Recognition, Reconciliation and Respect
Sixty years ago next month, the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land sent two bark petitions—framed by traditional ochre paintings—to the Federal Parliament, protesting the grant of mining rights in Arnhem Land and seeking Parliament’s recognition of their title and traditional rights.
