Marist College Canberra is an all-boys independent Catholic school

Catholic school

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 school founded in 1968. The college is situated on 15 hectares and located in the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

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, Canberra

Canberra

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. The college provides boys from years 4-12 with a well-rounded education. Founded by Marist Brothers

Marist Brothers

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, it is a member of the Association of Marist Schools of Australia

Association of Marist Schools of Australia

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 (AMSA). In 2008, the college celebrated its 40th Year.

The Rocks

The origins of Marist College Canberra are to be found at the Rocks in Sydney. There in 1875, only three years after the foundation of the first Marist school in Australia

Australia

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, the Brothers began a Select School or High School with Brother Augustine McDonald as its first principal.

Darlinghurst

In 1887 the secondary school transferred to the eastern side of St Mary's Cathedral, since this was a more central location and provided more space. By 1910 however, the school premises were run down and this fact and other difficulties led the Marist Brothers

Marist Brothers

The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...

 to construct new buildings on the heights of Darlinghurst, and "The High School" as it was commonly known, transferred there. Both at the Cathedral and at Darlinghurst. By the 1960s, demographics threatened the future of the school at Darlinghurst, while at the same time Canberra

Canberra

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 was burgeoning and in need of Catholic schools. So the decision was taken to sell the property and to use the proceeds to transfer the school to Canberra.

Canberra

Marist Canberra began in 1968 with primary classes. The first senior classes commenced in 1971. The first graduating class was in 1975. Since then the school has developed an outstanding reputation for its academic,sporting,and artistic achievements. Great emphasis is placed on each student to do their best academically and the school provides excellent learning facilities to educate boys of all academic standards.

Abuse scandal

In February 2008, a teacher at Marist College Canberra, John William Chute, pleaded guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court to 11 charges of indecently assaulting students of the college during the 1980s.

Background

The schools houses system was implemented in 1987 from a year group system. This was to provide greater care of students and further leadership opportunities. Each house developed their crest and motto which forged the houses Conway, Crispin, Darlinghurst, Mark, Othmar, Patrick. The following year, 1988, two further houses, Haydon and McMahon, were added to reduce house size.

Champagnat Cup

The Champagnat Cup was introduced by the graduating year of 2005. The cup is presented to the house that proves to have respectively won overall in array of house competitions. These competitions include athletic, swimming and cross country carnivals, academic performance, and walkathon collection totals.

Academics

Anthony Deitz - Rhodes Scholar

Associate Professor Joseph Grotowksi - Mathematics at University of Queensland

Politics, public service, business and law

Brendan Smyth

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MLA - ACT Liberal party leader

Brigadier John Caligari

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 - Australian Defence Force

Ben McDevitt - Former Assistant Commisioner of Australian Federal Police

Entertainment, media and arts

Paul McDermott

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- Television personality. Host of 'Good News Week'

Chris Uhlmann

Chris Uhlmann

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 - Television presenter and journalist

George Huitker - Poet, writer and musician

Patrick Brammall - Actor and playwright

Wayne Bradley - Actor

Sports

Geoff Didier - Rugby Union Wallaby

Rob Egerton - Rugby Union Wallaby

Matt O'Connor

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 - Rugby Union Wallaby

Joe Roff

Joe Roff

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- Rugby Union Wallaby

Mark Bullock - Australian 7's rugby union

Michael Hodge - Australian 7's rugby union

Julian Salvi - Current super 15 player ACT Brumbies

Tetera Faulkner - Current super 15 player Western Force

Phoenix Battye - Current super 15 player Western Force / Artist

Adrian Barich

Adrian Barich

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 - Former AFL player

Matthew Mahoney - Former AFL player

Aaron Hamill

Aaron Hamill

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 - Former AFL player

Brad Fuller

Brad Fuller

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 - Former AFL player

Craig Bolton

Craig Bolton

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 - Former AFL and Australian representative

James Mieklejohn - Former AFL player

Patrick Mills

Patrick Mills

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 - NBA and Australian basket ball player

Lindsay Wilson

Lindsay Wilson (footballer)

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- Australian Socceroo

Andrew Deane - Australian Hockey representative (Olympian)

Luis Val - Australian Judo (Olympian)

Steven Hill - Australian Judo

Tom Hill - Australian Judo (Olympian)

Simon Thompson

Simon Thompson

Simon Thompson is an athlete from Australia. He competes in triathlon.Thompson trains with the Tridents Triathlon Club in Canberra and is coached by Ben Gathercole. http://www.tridents.com.au...

- Triathlon (Olympian)

Kial Stewart - Australian cyclist

Lincoln Withers

Lincoln Withers

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 - Former NRL player

Richard Villasanti

Richard Villasanti

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 - Former NRL player and Australian representative

Josh Dugan

Josh Dugan

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- NRL and NSW State of Origin player

External links

• Marist College Canberra