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Good article by the marvellous Australian writer and thinker David Marr about Pell:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... f-children
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Most people of Ballarat are feeling a little bit better today!
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Now that he's dead, so that the laws of defamation don't protect him, it will be interesting to see what emerges.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-12/ ... /101849032
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good!
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Putting the church cover-ups and abuse allegations to one side, why would he even be publicly commemorated to begin with (the implication being that he would have been given a state funeral otherwise)? What, precisely, did he contribute to society apart from being a very high-ranking Catholic? His church and its congregants can commemorate him as they please, of course, but I’m not sure why secular society should give a toss about him.

For too long we’ve had a habit of honouring the famous and powerful simply for being famous and powerful. Hopefully that’s beginning to change.
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^ I disagree. It would have made for a fabulous eulogy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbou ... larat.html
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he was mates with Risdale, thats enough for me.
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So, did Buffy have to use the stake?
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^ He’s some writer Guy Rundle. Don’t always agree with him and at times I want to say “cut the cackle” as was used once by an English lecturer’s notes to a friend’s undergraduate essay but this was pretty good. He has a Helen Razor way with words at times.
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Pretty good right up.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Unmarked grave like a lot of criminals get, and not on sacred ground!
Where the devils hellfireopening is will do
Scum

Never say his name
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