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The MacKillop Catholic College campus is master planned as a Prep to Year 12 College, encompassing four streams in the primary years and six streams in secondary. The College will develop in stages, having opened with Stage 1 in 2016, offering Prep to Year 3.  Stage 2 was completed in readiness for the 2018 school […]

Historically, Catholic schools existed predominantly to educate children from Catholic families. In recent years though, Church documents including ‘The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium’ (1998) have advocated a more inclusive approach to Catholic education, and specifically, a more welcoming attitude toward those with special educational needs, those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, […]

Virtually from the outset, the provision of education has been inextricably linked with the Australian Catholic Church’s mission and pastoral strategy. While both political and practical factors influenced the scope of its provision through the decades, quality schooling has nevertheless been an enduring hallmark of the Catholic Church’s profile in this country. Schools exist for […]

Logo Our College logo incorporates elements that reflect our mission, our location and our patron, St Mary MacKillop. The Cross identifies us as a Christian community drawing our ethos and energies from Jesus Christ and his Gospel. Our Patron, St Mary MacKillop, took the religious name ‘Mary of the Cross’.   The Cross is rendered in […]

Principal: Luke Brown Luke Brown is Principal of MacKillop Catholic College, taking over the reigns of leadership from foundation Principal, Luke Reed who led the college since its opening in 2016. Luke Brown came to MacKillop from the position of Director of School Effectiveness with Cairns Catholic Education Services and previously as Principal of Our […]

Acknowledgement We acknowledge and pay respect to the first peoples and ongoing custodians of this land, the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people. Our school is established in Yeti, part of Gimuy Walubara Yidinji country. We commit ourselves to actively working together for reconciliation and justice. Our Location MacKillop Catholic College is located at Mount Peter Road, […]

St Mary MacKillop’s Story 1842 – 1909 On January 15, 1842 Mary MacKillop was born of Scottish parents, Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald in Fitzroy, Victoria. This was less than seven years after Fawkner sailed up the Yarra, when Elizabeth Street was a deep gully and Lonsdale Street was still virgin bush. A plaque in […]