Author: Liz Power
August 31, 2026Mary’s courage, compassion, and commitment to helping those most in need left a lasting impression, one that stayed with Patricia into adulthood.
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Restoring the Land, Strengthening Communities
August 31, 2026Mary MacKillop Today Highways and Byways Small Grants Program helped fund a practical field day for 19 local graziers in a rural Queensland community, collectively managing over 28,000 hectares of land.
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A Soldier's Story: Saving Books, Building Futures
August 31, 2026Today, Steve is a regular giver to Mary MacKillop Today, supporting the education work he witnessed firsthand, work that gives Timorese children the foundation to build sustainable livelihoods and a self-sufficient future.
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Australia's leaders join the classroom activities in Dili
August 13, 2026A cross-party delegation of Australian federal politicians and international development leaders visited a preschool in Dili earlier this month to see Mary MacKillop Today’s EdTech for Early Learning project in action.
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A box of possibilities on the kitchen table
August 13, 2026For families in rural New South Wales, distance can quietly close doors. When programs are delivered online, a patchy internet connection or the cost of getting online can be enough to leave a family behind.
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A saint in waiting, and the baton of courage we carry
July 30, 2026Eileen died in 1921, at just 28. Her undertaker spoke five words that have never quite faded: “I buried a saint today.”
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Water conservation impact story
July 30, 2026You can help more families in Timor-Leste secure reliable water for generations to come.
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Australia's first education activist, and why there is still work to do
July 9, 2026Saint Mary MacKillop of the Cross, Australia’s first saint, was also, by any honest accounting, its first education activist.
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Mikayla is from the Yawuru and Bardi peoples, born and raised in Broome, and currently completing her Diploma in psychology.
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Part of the solution: Cameron - a journey from the Kimberley to the courtroom
July 2, 2026Today, Cameron is a scholarship recipient with Mary MacKillop Today’s First Nations Scholarship Program, studying paralegal studies through the Pilbara and Kimberley University Centres.
