Why the Second Jury Found George Pell Guilty
Why was the second verdict by the jury in the trials of George Pell so different from the first? If the jury in both cases was a fair sample of the Australian public, and the evidence heard by both...
View ArticleThe Majesty of the Law
When George Pell arrived at the Victorian Supreme Court on June 5 for the hearing of his appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse, guards put him in handcuffs. As he walked the few steps...
View ArticleThe Majesty of the Law
When George Pell arrived at the Victorian Supreme Court on June 5 for the hearing of his appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse, guards put him in handcuffs. As he walked the few steps...
View ArticleThere’s More to the ‘Voice’ than Gleeson says
Last Thursday night the former Chief Justice of the High Court, Murray Gleeson, gave a speech on the proposal to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples a “Voice” in the Australian...
View ArticleChief Justices and Lost Tjurungas
In the last two weeks of July, two former Chief Justices of the High Court, Murray Gleeson and Robert French, came out publicly to endorse the concept of a “Voice” in parliament for Australia’s...
View ArticleDouble Standards in the Court of Appeal
To support their case for rejecting the appeal of Cardinal George Pell against his conviction for sexual abuse of two choirboys in 1996, two of the Victorian appeal court judges, Chief Justice Anne...
View ArticleChief Justices and Lost Tjurungas
In the last two weeks of July, two former Chief Justices of the High Court, Murray Gleeson and Robert French, came out publicly to endorse the concept of a “Voice” in parliament for Australia’s...
View ArticleThe Contradictions of the Choirboy
Chief Justice Anne Ferguson and President of the Court of Appeal Chris Maxwell, in George Pell v The Queen: The impression we gained from reading the transcript of [the choirboy’s] cross-examination...
View ArticlePell’s New Appeal and ‘This Hiatus, This Gap’
Following the rejection in August by the Victorian Appeal Court of Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction for historic sex abuse of two underage choirboys after a Sunday Solemn Mass at...
View ArticleThe Contradictions of the Choirboy
The impression we gained from reading the transcript of [the choirboy’s] cross-examination reinforced the impression we had gained from watching the recording of him giving evidence. Nothing about...
View ArticleInvented Traditions
On October 26 the board that manages the Uluru National Park banned all climbing of the monolith once known as Ayers Rock. The decision is not only bound to wreak serious damage to the well-developed...
View ArticlePell’s High Court Appeal and ‘This Hiatus, This Gap’
Following the rejection in August by the Victorian Appeal Court of Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction for historic sex abuse of two under-age choirboys after a Sunday Solemn Mass at...
View ArticleThe Epicentre of Our History
When Julia Gillard was Minister for Education in the Rudd government in 2008 she appointed a committee to rewrite the national schools curriculum from primary school to year 10. When the curriculum’s...
View ArticleThe Epicentre of Our History
When Julia Gillard was Minister for Education in the Rudd government in 2008 she appointed a committee to rewrite the national schools curriculum from primary school to Year 10. When the curriculum’s...
View ArticleJust Another Fabrication
The year 2020 marks 250 years since James Cook’s discovery and exploration of the east coast of the Australian continent between April and August 1770. The 250th anniversary won’t attract as grand a...
View ArticleCaptain Cook and the Great Game
The book’s title is Lying for the Admiralty (Rosenberg, Sydney, 2018) and instead of a subtitle to spell out its subject matter, its cover has a portrait of Captain James Cook and a map of New Holland...
View ArticleThe Crown Prosecutor’s Retraction
Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction of historical sexual abuse of two choirboys will be heard before the full High Court of Australia on March 11. Pell’s conviction in a Melbourne...
View ArticleThe Crown prosecutor’s bent trump card
The first of the two incidents that convicted Cardinal George Pell of sexual abuse of two choirboys supposedly took place after a Solemn Sunday Mass in St Patricks Cathedral, Melbourne, in December...
View ArticleGeorge Pell and the Disappearing Priests
The Priests’ Sacristy of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne gets its name from the fact that it is where the priests robe and disrobe before and after Mass. Priests are normally part of the Sunday...
View ArticleThe Crown Prosecutor’s Retraction
Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction of historical sexual abuse of two choirboys will be heard before the full High Court of Australia on March 11. His conviction in a Melbourne county...
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