Hope: Unfinished Business

"Dear Aboriginal People, the hour has come for you to take on new courage and new hope. You are called...."

Pope John Paul II, Alice Springs 1986

Edited by Kelly Humphrey, Dr Lisa Buxton and Lana Turvey Collins

Foreword by Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO

Contributors: Kelly Humphrey, Antoinette Cole, Hilda (Louise) Campbell, Dr Lisa Buxton, Erica Bernard, Karen Andriske, Cynthia Page, Alarna Page, Doreen Fanders, Sally Fitzgerald.

This collection of reflections on hope brings together the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose stories rise from Country, community, faith, and lived experience.

In these pages, hope is not romanticised. It is remembered through survival, revealed through truth-telling, and reclaimed through cultural identity and spiritual resilience.

Written during the Jubilee Year of Hope (2025), this collection honours the wisdom of women who have long held their families, communities, and churches in times of both struggle and renewal. Each reflection offers a window into a deeply personal, yet profoundly communal understanding of hope.

This is a book for anyone seeking a truer, richer understanding of hope, one shaped by the enduring strength, dignity, and leadership of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.