“It was the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life,” said the Duke of Wellington about his last-minute victory in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and left Britain the greatest power in Europe for the rest of the nineteenth century. While anyone educated in Australia has at […]

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Victoria should join New South Wales in allowing high-profile criminal matters to be heard by a judge alone. Judges, at least, should be above the baying mob.                       —The Australian, April 8 This recommendation from an editorial in The Australian reflected many commentaries on the High Court verdict that freed Cardinal George Pell from prison […]

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According to Geoffrey Robertson, the most notable Australian item in the British Museum is the Gweagal Shield, which he maintains was 'plundered' at Botany Bay by James Cook, whom he also holds responsible the 'bullet hole' at its centre. Today, the 250th anniversary of his arrival, its even more appropriate than usual to refute the lies of the Left

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Victoria's Chief Justice Anne Ferguson and President of the Court of Appeal Chris Maxwell are even more responsible than the jury for the continuation of Cardinal Pell’s persecution. The errors in their empirical deductions and logical conclusions should alarm all Australians, particularly Victorians

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The Jacobins' heirs insist it is they who speak for the wretched of the earth, claiming to be on the side of blacks, women, gays, indigenes, refugees and anyone else they define as the victims of oppression. Gertrude Himmelfarb, lost to us in December at the age of 97, demonstrated what a facade these claims actually are

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Victoria Police charged George Pell even though they heard two quite different stories from his choirboy accuser: the first that the alleged abuse occurred during the week after choir practice in the ‘closed-off’ cathedral; the second, that it took place after Mass on a Sunday when the cathedral was a ‘hive of activity’

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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 court in December 2018 was affirmed by the Victorian Court of Appeal in August 2019. The conviction was for two incidents of […]

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There are key questions about the priests who concelebrated Mass with Pell in December 1996, questions that should have been asked at the cardinal's trial. They would have told a very different story to the lurid tale of Pell’s accuser. Yet the prosecution’s tactic to airbrush them out of the picture won out

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Cardinal Pell's appeal to the High Court: In prosecutor Mark Gibson’s hands at trial, the five-or-six-minute hiatus was transformed into something that began not immediately after Mass but five-or-six minutes later, after the exit procession. In an audacious manipulation he also shifted its location from sanctuary to the sacristy, where the choirboy said he had been abused

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Where did the altar servers go while Cardinal Pell was allegedly molesting two choir boys in a room normally 'a hive of activity'? At trial, when the Crown prosecutor asserted the altar servers left the room, he was forced to retract since there was no evidence they did. Now, in response to Pell's appeal to the High Court, the prosecutor has quietly revived this same retracted claim

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