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Australian Catholic Historical Society. As a founding member in 1966 of the Australasian Canon Law Society, he delivered a 13,000-word paper on his reminiscences to that Society's 50th anniversary annual conference in Surfers Paradise on 7 September 2016. It was published in the
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Executive Secretary to the Bishops Committee for Justice, Development and Peace (BCJDP). After deciding not to return to the public service, he was to hold the Church position for almost 18 years, until his retirement in 2005.
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Commonwealth public servant, Costigan accepted two other shorter-term appointments in the public services of two Australian states, also in a senior capacity. The first, in Perth, under the newly elected Government of Premier
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Affairs Commission of New South Wales. He was appointed Executive Secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace in 1987, staying in the role until his retirement in 2005.
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Costigan continued to write, as a freelance journalist and specialist book reviewer, for a variety of publications, mostly Catholic and social justice-related in nature. They have included the Sydney
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of the conference. His background in law studies was recognised by his appointments as a lay member of the NSW Legal
Profession Standards Board (1988â1994) and of the NSW Legal Services Tribunal (1994â2015).
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writer, editor, former priest, senior public servant and social justice advocate. He studied for the priesthood in
Melbourne and Rome and was ordained in 1955. He left the priesthood in 1969.
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in Victoria to study for the priesthood. In his time at Werribee he wrote articles for a number of Catholic journals and general publications.
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Costigan, Michael (1996). "My decade at the literature board".
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771:"Memories and Reflections"
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