Category: CURRENT ISSUES

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have held Father Frank Brennan in high regard. He has not towed the party line when certain Catholic leaders needed to be criticised or for example when the church needed to consider recognising...

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn today’s ‘Guardian Australia’, Australian Medical Association president, Dr Michael Gannon, is reported commenting on Dr Goodall’s death in Switzerland, saying that he was concerned that the “suicide of someone who’s aged 100” was...

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a directions hearing this morning, Victorian County Court Judge Sue Pullen and the parties agreed that the charges on which Cardinal Pell was committed to stand trial be split and addressed in two...

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, Victorian Magistrate Belinda Wallington committed Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on a number of child sex offence charges, while also ruling that there was insufficient evidence for him to stand trial on...

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt doesn’t seem that very long ago that corruption, cheating and reprehensible behaviour by public figures was something that we heard about in overseas news. We prided ourselves on the integrity of our political,...