| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Australia (6415 words) |
 | This colony had been founded in 1836 as a free and "socially superior" Protestant settlement, from which "Papists and pagans" were to have been rigidly excluded. |
| For a time all the colonies of the Australasian group followed the example initiated by New South Wales in according State aid to the clergy and the denominational schools of the principal religious bodies, Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists. |
| One of the first results of the withdrawal of the State grants in the various colonies was the closing of most of the Protestant primary schools. |
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