 By 1914, Creagh had been transferred to Australia.He was appointed, soon afterwards, as rector of the Redemptorist monastery in North Perth.In 1915, A. O. Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, argued that the Catholic mission at Lombadina, in the Kimberley should be closed, because the property of belonged to a Filipino from Manila, Thomas Puertollano, who was married to an Aboriginal woman and was technically employing the Aborigines.