Mine is a painful story, but I'm sharing it with non-indigenous people because I want them to understand where indigenous people are coming from and how much pain they've gone through.
23 September 1997
According to figures recently released by the Australian government's Bureau of Statistics, 73.8 per cent of Australia's nearly 18 million people identify with some religious group, and 70 per cent identify with a Christian group.
03 September 1997
Archbishop of Canterbury's address at the Provincial Sesquicentenary Celebrations, Paradise, Adelaide Wednesday 30 July 1997 at 19.30 hrs
20 August 1997
Australia's only Aboriginal bishop has called on his people to apologise for killing white settlers in the past. The Rt Revd Arthur Malcolm, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of North Queensland, has said that both sides needed to apologise. He was speaking after Australia's Prime Minister and Federal Government had refused to respond to calls for a formal national apology for the so-called "stolen children". Aboriginal children removed forcibly from their parents over many decades.
26 June 1997
Australia's Church leaders have entered a growing national controversy over an independent member of Federal Parliament who is opposed to the national policy of accepting migrants from Asia.
30 May 1997
The Anglican Church has been advised that there will be an state inquiry into the need for euthanasia in Tasmania.
25 April 1997
The decision by the Senate, the upper House of the Australian Parliament, to discard the Northern Territory's euthanasia legislation was today welcomed by church leaders. The Senate vote followed a vote in the House of Representatives some weeks earlier, which also supported the Private Member's Bill designed to overturn the Northern Territory euthanasis legislation.
25 March 1997
The Anglican Board of Mission (ABM) is making a series of sweeping changes to put more emphasis on parish work. This year the ABM will streamline its administration in favour of strategically-located field staff specialising the areas of youth ministry, mission education and development work.
27 January 1997
A major national conference to map out the future of the Anglican Church in Australia in the new millennium will be held in Canberra in February. More than 1,000 Anglicans will be attending.
27 January 1997
The Anglican Dean of Sydney, Boak Jobbins, said the latest death by euthanasia in the Northern Territory was another day of shame for Australia. "Quite clearly we are a nation that has come to the end of its resources," Dean Jobbins said. "We no longer have anything to offer the terminally ill, the aged or the disabled but a quick exit at the end of a needle."
09 January 1997