A detail but informative article on the arrival of different Catholic women's orders and how they went about establishing and providing a Catholic education, their impact on Catholic communities and challenges faced. Many references to Ballarat and the Loreto Sisters are made.
The Education Act established a free, secular and compulsory education system in Victoria and had a major impact on the provision of Catholic education.
Ninety years after the Victorian Education Act, the Federal government introduced funding for non-government schools, in part as a result of decades of lobbying and strikes by Catholic schools.
The online directory can be used to locate a specific school, or browse schools in a diocese. Each school website will likely include a section on the school's history.
From the Murray to the Sea
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