Sectarianism in Australia

A denunciation of anti-Catholic and anti-Irish bigotry in Sydney's The Catholic Weekly, December 24, 1853.

Sectarianism in Australia is a historical legacy from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Australia was a sectarian society divided between Catholics – predominantly but not exclusively of Irish background – on the one hand and Protestants of British heritage on the other.[1]

  1. ^ Rickard (1996), p. 88