ABORIGINAL politicians and healthcare experts will gather at the University of Notre Dame Australia at 6pm on 2 May to discuss how to increase the participation of Indigenous people in the health sector. WA Federal and State MPs Ken Wyatt MHR and his nephew Ben Wyatt MLA will join Jenni Collard, Director of the WA Department of Health’s Office of Aboriginal Health and Kevin Cox, Direct...

By Bridget Spinks JESUIT Fr Steve Astill SJ will introduce at least two papal documents to the University of Notre Dame Australia’s (UNDA) theology course at Fremantle, succeeding Mgr Kevin Long as the course coordinator. Fr Steve Astill SJ Fr Astill, also the newly appointed parish priest of East Fremantle’s Immaculate Conception, will introduce Pope Benedict XVI&rs...

By Anthony Barich FREMANTLE’S University of Notre Dame Australia Student Association president Amy Rosario has redefined the body’s role in the context of what it means to be a Catholic university.   Amy Rosario Amy, who coordinated the large-scale Mary MacKillop Festival in Fremantle on 17 October, the day of the saint’s canonisation in Rome, told The Recor...

By Bridget Spinks Ron Dullard, director of Catholic Education and Paul Hille, principal of a new two-stream primary school in Cloverdale, launched the new school crest and logo, motto, vision and mission statement at a special function on 26 August. “Founded on Faith” is the new motto for the Cloverdale Notre Dame Catholic Primary School which, once complete, will have the cap...

By Anthony Barich THE University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus will launch a Midwifery post-graduate course by 2012 that will be the first of its kind in WA. Prof Selma Alliex, Dean of Nursing at Notre Dame Fremantle. UNDA School of Nursing Dean Prof Selma Alliex told The Record that the university has given the School permission to start the course, and that...

The Slattery Lecture presented by Notre Dame University’s School of Philosophy and Theology in Fremantle will see Fr Justin Taylor SM from the internationally renowned École Biblique in Jerusalem speak at the university on 19 August. Fr Taylor, a New Zealand priest, will speak on the literary novelty of the New Testament. The Gospels treat the everyday world and ordinary people...

On 29 May the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle hosted a historic Law and Order forum, bringing in senior figures who deal with the everyday realities to nut out practical solutions that benefit both the offenders and the wider community The forum caused plenthy of debate. Here, Aboriginal youth Glen Moore, who is starting an Aboriginal political party, talks with lawyer an...

UNDA marks the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s key document for Catholic universities Sister Moira Debono and Mr Paul Morrissey, two of the four theologians who marked Ex Corde Ecclesia’s 20th anniversary together with students at UNDA’s Sydney campus last week. PHOTO: Courtesy UNDA The four resident theologians at the University of Notre Dame Australia&r...

By Anthony Barich A STAR-studded Law and Order forum at the University of Notre Dame Australia will counter the “superficial”, media-driven debate on crime in Western Australia, its organiser says. University of Notre Dame politics lecturer Martin Drum is interviewed by the ABC. Photo: Courtesy UNDA Hosted by ABC Radio’s Geoff Hutchison, the 29 May forum at UND...

By Anthony Barich National reporter University of Notre Dame Australia students confronted environmental, health and economic concerns for people in a Malawi village during a 23 November-6 December immersion trip, said participant Lana Robinson. Children of the Kadikira parish playing soccer. Photo: Courtesy UNDA Miss Robinson, an Arts and Commerce student at UNDA’s Freman...