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Don’t accept sanitised history of clerical abuse
I have written on numerous occasions that I despaired Pell’s trial would become a circus that overwhelmed everything around it and everything that had …
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Part morgue, part toilet: Mount Everest a teeming cesspit
It sounds just like the time I climbed Mount Druitt — without oxygen I might add, although I was assisted. I caught the train. …
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The National Redress Scheme, a textbook example of bureaucratic failure
It’s now been nine months and it is time to make the call. The National Redress Scheme is a dismal failure. The scheme, established …
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The George Pell sentence: Where to from here?
Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced to a maximum of six years imprisonment. He will be eligible for parole after serving three years and eight …
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Pell’s conviction casts the real story into the shadow
George Pell’s counsel withdrew his bail application today. Pell will be remanded in custody awaiting a sentence that almost certainly will include a long …
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Apologies are cheap for those who claim under National Redress Scheme
Just over a month ago, the federal parliament sat to offer formal apologies to the victims of institutional child sex abuse. Professional speech writers …
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Daniel Andrews: so popular, even John Howard’s praising him
The result of the Victorian election has been analysed to within an inch of its life. Federal factors, state factors, good leadership, leadership in …
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The global pandemic of clerical child sex abuse
A Pennsylvania grand jury has released its findings accusing 300 Catholic priests of sexually assaulting more than a thousand children over 70 years. The …
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Royal wedding: Why Australians will be fixed to their screens
If you grow weary of the inescapable wall-to-wall coverage of the royal wedding, just imagine what the bride and groom are going through. I …
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Denis Ryan has a win at last
Denis Ryan has had a busy time of it. On the 86-year-old former cop’s call list this morning was the Washington Post, the BBC and …