What Reconciliation Means To Me: Leith Bailey
Leith Bailey is a personal carer for the Sisters of Saint Joseph at the South Perth Convent. She is also in her final year of a Bachelor of Counselling Degree at the University of Notre Dame. I’ve lived in places like northeast Arnhem land, the Western desert areas. Mostly that was because I was living […]
What Reconciliation Means To Me: Ruth Nelson
Ruth Nelson is a Western clinical psychologist employed at the Baabayn Aboriginal Corporation and has participated in Baabayn’s community life for about four years. She is also a member of the Josephite Justice Network. In my job as a clinical psychologist at Baabayn, I draw a lot on liberation psychology which holds that there is […]
What Reconciliation Means To Me: Alma Cabassi rsj
Alma Cabassi is a Sister of Saint Joseph currently living in Halls Creek, Western Australia. Her ministry for the last nine years has been living alongside our First Peoples, listening, reflecting and being with them. Reconciliation isn’t a single moment or place in time. It’s lots of small steps, some big strides, and sometimes unfortunate […]
What Reconciliation Means To Me: Lorrae Collins and Vivica Turnbull
Vivica Turnbull is a Barkindji/Ngamba woman from Bourke in her first year of a Bachelor of Biodiversity and Conservation at Macquarie University, Sydney. Lorrae Collins is the Congregational Finance Director for the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Lorrae’s husband Paul and Vivica’s father Bruce met while Bruce was a student of St […]
What Reconciliation Means To Me: Sherry Balcombe
Sherry Balcombe has a background in Aboriginal welfare, with six years at the Victoria Aboriginal Child Care Agency in Victoria and seventeen years at the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, six years of which she has spent as its Co-ordinator. She is a Western Yalanji, Djabaguy/Okola woman from Far North Queensland […]