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1829 AD | Captain James Stirling
on board HMS Parmelia,
anchored off Fremantle at Garden Island. On board were the first settlers bound for the Swan River Colony now known as Perth. |
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1833 AD | The Very Reverend William Bernard
Ullathorne, first
Catholic Vicar-General of Australia expressed his concern of the impact European settlement had on Aboriginal people. The Aboriginal he said "knew nothing monstrous in crime until England schooled him in horrors through her prisoners". He believed that the only effective way to bring Christianity to Aboriginal people, because of the corrupting influence of European settlement, was to send missionaries out beyond the limits of colonisation. |
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1833AD | Midgegoroo and Yagan were killed.
Midgegoroo by
firing squad and Yagan shot by William and James Keats. In retaliation, William was killed and James was sent from the colony. |
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1834AD | The first native institution was
established at the base
of Mt Eliza along the banks of the Swan River. Francis Armstrong a prominent Methodist Minister took command. Here Aboriginal people were allowed the freedom to conduct their daily lives according to traditional ways. This was however, short lived as it was closed in 1838. |
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1838 AD | The Rev. William Mitchell established
a mission
school at Middle Swan. The aim was to domesticate Aboriginal children. This failed almost immediately due to "too low level of civilization of the Aborigines". |
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1839 AD | Rottnest island was established
as a jail for Aboriginal
prisoners. |
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1840 AD | Rev John Smithies of the Wesleyan
Mission society
opened the Wesleyan Mission School at the Subscription Chapel, William Street, Perth with 30 Aboriginal pupils. Some children were sent to the school by their parents, others were orphans. Some teaching incorporated the Aboriginal languages. This was considered important in keeping up the self- esteem and moral of the students. |
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1841 AD | Abraham Jones opened another Aboriginal
school at
Guildford. The school could best be described as a training institution for domestic servants, the pupils spending most of the day in household employment in local homes. Out of the original 23 pupils, 11 died within a few months of commencement due to European diseases |
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1842 AD | Rev. George King a minister of
the Church Of
England opened a school with fifteen pupils mostly girls - at Fremantle. The school was plagued by sickness and death. |
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1843 AD | Fr John Brady, later Bishop Brady,
arrived in Albany.
He established the first Catholic school at the Swan River Colony. |
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1846 AD | Fr Brady returned to Western Australia
with a party of
volunteers including six Sisters of Mercy and a postulant, 13 catechists and two Spanish Benedictine monks. From the Perth base where they established their first school (now Mercedes College) only weeks after their arrival, the Sisters of Mercy extended Catholic education into country regions. |
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1846 AD | Bishop Brady sent Benedictine monks
Doms Salvado
and Serra to the Victoria Plains region (82 miles north of Perth) to establish an Aboriginal mission. The first mass was celebrated at New Norcia on 1 March 1846. A party of Aborigines armed with spears and other weapons gathered at the site. The missionaries approached them, offering gifts of sugar, tea and bread. Aboriginal curiosity overcame suspicion and hostility, and friendly relations were established. A permanent settlement ministering to both the bodily and spiritual needs of Aboriginal people was established. When three Aboriginal boys were given into their charge, the monks were able to begin one of their most cherished tasks the education of the children |
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1848 AD | First Jesuits arrived in South
Australia to establish an
Aboriginal mission, however this was unsuccessful due to the demands of European people, who prevented them from undertaking their mission. |
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1867 AD | The first all Australian Aboriginal
cricket team toured
England. |
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1868 AD | Approximately 150 Aboriginals were
said to have
been shot near Cossack by a posse sent to revenge the killing of a party of settlers. The official reason given was that they were shot "while resisting arrest". John Casey, an irish convict transported to Western Australia wrote home to his family in ireland about the way Aboriginal people were treated. "Certainly it reflects but little
credit on the white man
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1886 AD | Western Australia introduced protection
policies. This
brought about reserves where Aboriginal people lived in poverty with little or no chance of education or employment. |
Taken from Aboriginal Education Policy - Support Document
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Published by the Catholic Education Office, Perth,
Western Australia
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