Hope: Unfinished Business invites readers into powerful stories of the grit and resilience of trailblazing women, and their ability to live, love and fight for faith-filled hope amid turmoil and challenge.
Each touching story, authored by proud Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, offers a unique and personal glimpse into the ongoing but unfinished work towards justice and reconciliation.
Sponsored by the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) at Australian Catholic University (ACU), in partnership with Catholic Mission and formation.org.au, the new book is a collection of raw reflections on hope in the face of darkness, uncertainty, survival and intergenerational trauma.
For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholics, the Jubilee Year was an opportunity to reflect on the healing power of hope, and the role faith has played in our deep desire for change and reconciliation.
With a foreword by Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO, the book features the authentic experiences of the late Gumbaynggirr woman Aunty Hilda Louise Campbell, education researcher Antoinette Cole, executive officer of Aboriginal Catholic Ministry in Sydney Dr Lisa Buxton, Kimberley Catholic Erica Bernard, mother of three Karen Andriske, Northern Territory educator Cynthia Page, Melukerdee and Palawa woman Alarna Page, Gumbaynggirr woman Aunty Doreen Flanders and Muruwari woman Sally Fitzgerald.