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Published by the DIOCESE OF BROOME PO Box 76, Broome, Western Australia 6725 Tel: (08) 9192 1060 Fax: (08) 9192 2136 E-mail: [email protected] FREE www.broomediocese.org ISSUE 04 JUNE 2007 Multi-award winning magazine for the Kimberley • Building our future together INSIDE North West Expo proves successful for Broome Campus Missionaries in Troubled Times appeal ThisIssue Pope acting for peace in Sri Lanka: Australia can help too Editorial ‘Put up or pipe down!’ A number of recent events and decision-making by State And Everybody blamed Somebody trends have brought forth a series Government, perceived lack of because Nobody did what of responses from the ordinary action to address social issues, Anybody could have done. people in the streets of the perceived lack of consultation on The message? We all need to Kimberley. For example, we resource developments. The do what we can; contribute our have seen a recent by-election in question is usually, ‘Why are they bit to not only finding the Broome for one seat on the Shire not doing something problem but also Council. Some 500 people out of about it?’ We have ‘If we sit back and finding the solution. a possible 7000 registered voters all read some version do what we have There are a number Waterhole along the turned out to cast their vote. At of the following always done, we of pleasing the same time we have had story: responses to some of Little Fitzroy River on numerous complaints about This is a story will continue to get the issues mentioned Tablelands Station in the central Kimberley. proposals made by the Shire to do about four people: above that have been what we have Photo: T Treacy. this or that. Surely, the least Everybody, seen recently. There people can do if they want to Somebody, Anybody always got’ have been have the right to complain is to and Nobody. community based He leads me spend five minutes to cast a vote! There was an important job to be groups formed by concerned There is pressure on all done and Everybody was asked to citizens to suggest some solutions beside quiet around in our towns and do it. Everybody was sure that to the appropriate people with waters. communities. Pressures are Somebody would do it. Anybody regard to homelessness, the broad Psalm 23:2 coming from lack of facilities, could have done it, but Nobody problems that are evidenced by lack of affordable housing, lack did. Somebody got angry because the increasing numbers of of access to cheap short-term it was Everybody’s job. itinerants in our towns, the lack accommodation, lack of available Everybody knew that Anybody of affordable housing for local land, perceived lack of due could do it, but Nobody realised people, the need for appropriate process, perceived slowness of that Somebody wouldn’t do it. development. These people have decided Kimberley The Sacred Heart that they are ‘Somebody’, and Community they can do something about their Profile Church Beagle Bay concerns. They have already seen their work bear fruit in is a publication of the Conservation and proposed community forums, Roman Catholic Diocese Restoration Appeal improved consultation processes, of Broome, published and action steps backed by their eight times a year by the Please make donations local Shire Councillors and Bishop of Broome. payable to: Officers. This has been a good Articles to do with the THE NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA lesson for many people. As that Kimberley are welcome (WA) and post to: famous author Anonymous once to be submitted for The Sacred Heart Church said, ‘If we sit back and do what publication. Beagle Bay Conservation and Restoration Appeal we have always done, we will PO Box 76, Broome WA 6725 continue to get what we have SUBSCRIPTIONS & always got’. MY DONATION: ❑ $25 ❑ $50 ❑ $100 ❑ Other ENQUIRIES: So if people want to exercise Diocese of Broome, My/Our cheque/money order/cash is enclosed their right to speak out and PO Box 76, complain about how things are, ❑ ❑ ❑ BROOME WA 6725 OR Mastercard Visa Bankcard they need to be willing to Tel: 08 9192 1060 Card No. participate in producing a change. Fax: 08 9192 2136 If they feel they cannot take on E-mail: [email protected] . leadership themselves, they www.broomediocese.org Expiry Date Signature should at least get out and vote Subscription Rate $25.00pa for and support those who believe they can. The message for us all N a m e : ____________________________________________________________ The opinions expressed in the current climate of many Postal Address: ________________________________________________ in this publication are not pressures is as Gandhi suggested: necessarily those of the You must be the change you wish Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible. Receipts will be issued. Bishop of Broome. to see in the world. 2 • Kimberley Community Profile • JUNE 2007 Briefly Speaking TERRY MURPHY, for a very long time a Kimberley Lay Missionary in the Diocese of Broome, recently retired to Wagga Wagga in NSW where he has family. Terry spent many years in the Kimberley where in later years he enjoyed a period of time as caretaker for the Sisters of St John of God at their house on Riddell Beach. Thank you, Terry, for your many years of service to the people of the Kimberley. Photo: Courtesy Sisters of St John of God. Photo: J Grimson. ANNE AND DENIS CULLITY were in Broome recently to support the Professional Development for clergy and others offered by Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus. The Conference with Fr Kevin Long and Fr John Coleman SJ was sponsored by the Jesuit Chair of Studies at St Thomas More College, a Foundation promoted and supported by Denis and his wife. Photo: J Grimson. THE ROVING RETREAT TEAM has arrived in Broome and plans to make connections with communities prior to conducting Retreats throughout the Diocese. The Team, consisting of Fr Eugene Diaz (far Photo: J O’Brien sgs. right) assisted by (l to r) Joseph Eastgate, Hannah Atkinson and Marcello Gonzalez, is looking forward to visiting each Parish and as THE TWO BROTHERS NEGUS were in Broome recently for the many communities as possible. farewell to the Our Lady of the Missions Sisters and more specifically the farewell to Sr Helena Brabender OLM. The Brothers are also brothers (twins in fact) as is evident from the photograph. Both were Principals of Nulungu College when Sr Helena was a staff member and continued on the staff of St Mary’s for a total of 25 years. Peter, on the right, and Laurie had a wonderful time meeting large numbers of friends during their brief stay. Peter is part of the Leadership Team of the Christian Brothers in Perth and Laurie has just returned from two years in Africa and works at Clontarf and Trinity Colleges in Perth. THE WIRRIMANU ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTRE in Balgo is trialling a partnership with Kimberley TAFE to provide certificate and short-course vocational training in literacy, Photo: CAS. numeracy, computer usage, RECTOR GENERAL of the Pallottine Fathers, Fr Friedreich Kretz sac industrial skills and community (centre) and his assistant, Fr Jacob Nampudakam sac, were work. TAFE lecturers, David and accompanied by Fr Ray Hevern (left), Regional Leader in WA, on a Tammie Madden, have recent visit to Broome. The trip was part of the Rector General’s commenced full-time work at the Visitation to Australia and included Beagle Bay, where Fr Friedreich Centre working through Halls was interested to visit the cemetery, the final resting place of many Photo: N Goodwin rsj. Creek TAFE. Pallottine Priests and Brothers. Kimberley Community Profile • JUNE 2007 3 Viewpoint Vatican Dossier By Bishop Christopher Saunders DD PAVIA, Italy, APRIL 23, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI reiterated again the Identifying as Catholic central message of his pontificate - - God is love -- when visiting the Retaining the obvious addressed by a confirmed tomb of St. Augustine. Catholicity of our schools, understanding of ‘mission’ and a "Contemporary humanity needs hospitals, universities and formation of the Catholic this essential message, incarnated residential colleges is a pressing leadership group that heads each in Christ Jesus," the Holy Father challenge for the Church in all institution. A definition of said, concluding his trip to Pavia. parts of Australia. We need to be ‘mission’, that embraces more "Everything should begin here, saying clearly who we are and than the colourless and undefined and from here, everything should what we believe. term ‘Catholic ethos’; is a good be directed: all pastoral action, all This problem was beginning. An appreciation that theological theses," the Pontiff highlighted recently by the much this mission must extend beyond said in his homily at the publicised decision to remove a secular utilitarian purposes is celebration of Evening Prayer with crucifix from the wall of a essential. Any thought that priests, religious and seminarians regional Catholic hospital at the Catholic values and Catholic of this northern Italian diocese. request of a patient. One can see beliefs are no different from any He began by explaining: "I task of guiding and accompanying how such consideration could be other values or beliefs is clearly wanted to come here to venerate others in the path of following just as easily extended to other erroneous. At the core of our the mortal remains of St Augustine Christ.” institutions so that statues of the endeavours is the conviction that to express both the homage of the The Holy Father underlined: Sacred Heart, icons of the it is Christ and the love of Christ entire Church to one of the "To serve Christ is, above all, a Blessed Trinity, a marble relief that urges us, compels us, to greatest 'fathers,' and my personal question of love.

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