Annals Australasia was an Australian magazine of Catholic culture.
Originally titled Australian Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the magazine was established in 1889 by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Randwick, New South Wales. The first editor (though not fully acknowledged) was author and schoolteacher Mary Agnes Finn. By 2019 it was Australia's oldest continuously published magazine.Annals, 50 years, Paul Stenhouse MSC, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia, Current News, 12 Apr 2016.
In the mid-twentieth century, it regularly provided information on Catholic missions to Aboriginal Australia, and a series of articles on "non-Catholic churches" by Dr Leslie RumbleEdmund Campion, Rumble, Leslie Audoen (1892–1975), adb.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 27 June 2021. The journal was renamed Annals Australia in the 1960s and Annals Australasia in the 1980s. It contained material on Catholic issues of a generally conservative focus, intended to appeal to students and teachers.
For most of the years from 1964 to 2019, it was edited by Fr Paul Stenhouse MSC.Life Story: Paul Stenhouse MSC, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia, 17 Sept 2014. It was published by the Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington.
Annals closed with the issue of December 2019, on the death of Paul Stenhouse.Annals Australasia 130 (6) (Aug 2019), p. 1.
A Papua New Guinea version of Annals was published from 1986, edited by Fr Adrian Meaney MSC.
References
External links Archive of Annals, 2000-19 Archive of older Annals articles