Veronica Brady

Who is Veronica Brady?

Veronica Brady, I.B.V.M., is an Australian Religious Sister who is a noted writer and academic. She was one of the first Australian Religious Sisters to broadcast on the radio and to teach at a secular university. She was a member of the inaugural Board of the Australian Broadcasting Company in the 1980s.

Brady is an authority on Nobel Prize-winning Australian author Patrick White and wrote a biography of Australian poet Judith Wright.

After teaching at Loreto Convent in Kirribilli, New South Wales, Brady went to the University of Western Australia in 1972, and became an Associate Professor in 1991. She is currently Professor Emerita of Australian Literature at that university.

Brady is known for being outspoken. She has publicly criticised the Vatican stance on abortion, homosexuality and contraception, has been involved in the Aboriginal rights movement and the anti-uranium mining lobby, and supports the ordination of female priests in the Catholic Church.

Kath Gordon's biography of Sister Brady is Larrikin Angel.

Brady's other writings include Caught in the Draught, Polyphonies of the Self, and South of My Days.