Bethlehem College is a high school in Ashfield, New South Wales

Ashfield, New South Wales

Ashfield is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ashfield is about 9 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Ashfield.The official name for the...

 originally founded in 1881 by the Sisters of Charity

Sisters of Charity of Australia

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Students are easily identifiable by the purple school uniform

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 - fondly known around the inner western suburbs of Sydney

Sydney

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 as "Ribena Berries". Bethlehem excels in their sport as well as academically. The Sisters of Charity ran the College until 1991, when it became a systemic Catholic School run by the Sydney Catholic Education Office.

Notable alumnae

• Monica Attard
  Monica Attard
  Monica Ann Attard OAM is an award-winning Australian journalist. She is of Maltese descent.-Education:Attard was educated at Bethlehem College in Sydney. She attended Sydney University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts...
  
   - Award-winning Australian journalist
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  , - ABC News and Current affairs journalist, presenter of Media Watch and awarded an Order of Australia for Excellence in Journalism
• Danielle Brogan - Young Matildas 2006
• Geraldine Brooks - Author and journalist - Pulitzer Prize Winner for her novel 'March', Author of Year of Wonders
  Year of Wonders
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   and many other books, previously political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East
• Angela D'Amore
  Angela D'Amore
  Angela D'Amore , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Drummoyne from 2003 until 2011 initially for the Australian Labor Party until 2010, and then as an independent member until her retirement from politics in 2011...
  
   - Australia
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  n politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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  , Member for Drummoyne
• Sarah Oh - Winner of the 2006 Australian Junior Golf Championship.
• Rosina Burns - First female to be awarded a Masters in Education in Australia
• Justice Deirdre Frances O'Connor - Lawyer and former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, Past President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission
• Natalie McNamara - Director of Human Resources, Catholic Education Office Sydney, Member of the Order of Australia for Service to Catholic Education
• Debbie Spillane - Journalist / Presenter, ABC News Radio
• Hon. Barbara Perry
  Barbara Perry
  Barbara Mazzel Anne Perry MP, , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Auburn for the Australian Labor Party since 2001. Perry is the Shadow Minister for Ageing, Shadow Minister for Disability Services, Shadow Minister for Family and Community...
  
  - Member of the Legislative Assembly, Member for Auburn, Minister for Western Sydney, Minister for Juvenile Justice, Minister for Assisting the Premier on Citizenship
• Zita Antonios - Lawyer, Former Race Discrimination Commissioner, Member of the Veterans Review Board
• Rachel Neeson - Accomplished Sydney architect and joint winner of the Wilkinson award for the best house in NSW.
• Maree Boulis - Winner of the 2011 Get Real Scholarship at Kenvale College.