Social Welfare INDIVIDUALS

• Caroline Chisholm (Catholic)


  Lobbyist for the rights of migranrs, women and chuildren

  Set up shelters for immigrants, those in gold fields and sponsered immigration of families to reunite

  Established temporary shelter for young women

  Helped overall 14,000 people
• Bishop Bede Polding (Catholic)


  Advocate for Aboriginal affairs

  Active worker for the sick and needy
•  Mary McKillop (Catholic)


  Set up education and orphanages for refugees

  Ran over 20 schools ion 1869

  1668 opened a reguge for poor young women come from prisions, porphanages or the elderly

  1886 worked with Fr Julian Tennyson Woods to set up order of st Joseph to teach children wheo were poor, to end the cycle of poverty
• Sister Esther (Anglican)


  Arrived in mid 1180s

  Became involved in the church of England mission to the streets and lanes of melbourne

  Established house of mercy

  1856 Anglicare was established to care for homeless children, women, the unemployed and the poor
• John West (Anglican)


  Argued against the transportation of convicts to Australia becase of the social problems it caused
• John Dunmore Lang (Anglican)


  Lobbied for government assiatance and promoted immigration of skilled workers
• John Flynn (Presbyterian)


  Provided religious and medical advice

  Pioneered the Royal Flying doctor service in 1920s