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If NAIDOC and of the Australian Catholic Church are to achieve their goals time and patience will be required. Yet both show signs of justifiable impatience. This year the theme of NAIDOC Week is Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! Its tone is urgent, expressing frustration at the resistance to change but also the recognition that new possibilities have opened. By Andrew Hamilton

The census is not just a fascinating snapshot of contemporary Australian society, but an enormously rich source of information for governments and businesses

Abraham and his wife Theresa Falk came to Melbourne in 1865 by boat from Bristol, UK. His father, a rabbi, had emigrated from Prussia and was associated with the Bristol Synagogue.  Theresa’s father was in jewellery, where Abraham learnt his trade and worked in Manchester. In 1867 Abraham began a partnership through his father-in-law’s business,…

The census is not just a fascinating snapshot of contemporary Australian society, but an enormously rich source of information for governments and businesses

The census data provides not just a fascinating snapshot of contemporary society, but an enormously rich source of information to help determine how the country is run.

A legendary Aussie musician has called for a public holiday to commemorate the day our country was first named more than 200 years ago, in a holiday that could one day replace January 26.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — When England and Australia play a three-match rugby series in July, they’ll do so for a new trophy part-named after an iconic Indigenous player from Australia. More significantly, it will replace another piece of silverware that never sat well with the country’s Aboriginal population.

Percy was born on 6 July 1879 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of London-born John Marks a jeweller, and his New Zealand-born wife Eliza Jane Levy. The family moved to Sydney in 1880 where Percy was educated at the Paddington Superior Public School. At the age of 14, he was enrolled to study jewellery…

Sidney Baevski was born on 8 February 1878, in Krichev, then part of the Russian Empire and now known as the country of Belarus. He was the youngest of eleven children born to Ezekiel Baevski, a Hebrew scholar, and his wife, Koona Dubrusha. He was educated at the Jewish Elementary School in Krichev and later managed his…

Lionel was born in 1799 in England and was the son of Michael Samson, supposedly a member of one of the old established and wealthy families of English Jewry.   Lionel studied at Oxford University and became a member of the London Stock Exchange.  With his friend George Leake he became interested in emigration to the colonies…