Save the Crossley Church

Recent article in Eureka Street spoke of the pending sale of the Crossley Catholic Church.This is one of many public meeting places across the country that has either gone into or is about to go into private hands ( some would argue that the Catholic Church is a form of private enterprsie.

"At the top of a hill in south-west Victoria sits the church and hall of St Brigid's in Crossley, surrounded by rolling green hills of fertile volcanic soil. To the south, the hills drop away to the Southern Sea. These fields have sustained the largest rural Irish immigrant population in Australia for more than 150 years".