They had hoped he would go away quietly, fade into anonymity. Just another ex-cop with an axe to grind. In time they thought no one would listen. It has been 46 years almost to the day since Denis Ryan’s career as a Victoria Police detective came to an end after he tried to charge a priest, Monsignor John Day, with child sex offences. All hell broke loose in the Victoria Police Force; some of its most senior men tried to bring him down. But Ryan would not be silenced and people would, eventually, listen. In this week’s Australia Day honours, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, recognition finally for his role in child protection investigations.
Ryan’s story is no tormented parable searching for meaning. The lesson is simple: do the right thing, no matter the cost. “I was a pain in the arse to the police force and the government. There was no way I would have stopped. None. I wish others would have done the same,” he says now. But Ryan paid a high price. It cost him the job he loved and the financial security of a police pension. He has just turned 86 and lives in a rented flat in Mildura, northwest Victoria, eking out a life on the old age pension. He knew at the time his doomed investigation of Day would lead to more victims. It troubles him to this day.
Full story here.
I see that a white gang caused a lot of trouble in a Melbourne restaurant last night. Not just white but vegan! Run for the hills! Does Dutts know about this?
Quite funny really, crazy
Send ’em back to Vega! Oh, did you say “white”? White or just pale?
Maybe a whiter shade of pale JB…….🎶💚
Did you just harum my procol young lady?
Dutts doesn’t know his arse from his elbow.
Hear, hear, T O. hear hear.
A GOOD CHRISTIAN BLOKE:- Morrison made his immigration dept. intervene in ASIO security checks to try to prevent asylum seekers from being granted permanent protection visas, according to obtained cabinet documents. Morrison instructed his secretary to write to the director-general of security to request ASIO delay security checks so that people close to being granted permanent protection would miss the deadline.
It meant refugees about to start a new, permanent life in Australia would only be allowed to stay for three years.
The document states that if ASIO did not comply with Mr Morrison’s request, 30 extra asylum seekers could have been granted permanent protection each week. A real mean bastard is Morrison!
just a LNP prick
Just implementing one of the policies his government was elected on Bassy.
Perverting the course of justice is the coalitions policy? No surprises.
I am not against what he did…it was the low down sneaky underhanded way he did it…coming from, by the way, a bloke who is always going on about his bible bashing christian ideals. A real Sir Walter Raleigh this piece of slime.
So BASSY, you’re not really against pieces of “bible bashing slime” per se, you just don’t agree with the way they do things occasionally.
How odd.
Has Hillsong Morrison broken laws by delaying legally entitled people their opportunity to become Australians? Of course we will see the usual cons sheep here reckon he is just doing his job. What a load of rubbish. The coalition and their supporters continue to prove they are not fit to represent this Nation.
If Morrison did these dirty deals & there’s still such a thing as justice, can he please be sent to Manus to serve his time right alongside those poor souls whose imprisonment he personally extended?
You know, he could teach them how to become good kind Christians & tutor them in the art of achieving high office in the LNP, where decency, compassion & generosity are viewed as serious character flaws. 🤔♥
Oh dear. I don’t know yet but I will ask God tonight whilst in my supplications.
Just a dread feeling for ScoMo that there might have a been a Christian or two among those he tried so hard to deny entry to this country.
Whats the afterlife equivalent of Manus Island do you reckon Scottie?
If there IS a heaven please name ONE Liberal who will get there!
Well BASS that will depend on the efficacy of the confessional. If God is as perverse as he seems to be he might just let Abbott in to rattle the complacent.
(Our Gold Passes are heavily discounted right now. Geez things are slow after Christmas. )
Jim Killen
He’s already there Triv, in all his magnificence.
What a shocker he is Mr Baptiste, not easy to find any kind words for anyone in Turnbull’s government and now of course we are set to enter the Arms selling race with a top ten in the world spot being eyed off. Be off with you Turnbull and Co shockers all. Cheers
We see the decision made by the Howard Abbott and Costello show are continuing to smash the Nations budget. apart from the unfunded upper middle class welfare. The changes to Super concession the majority of the benefits go to the wealthiest, Capital gains and Negative gearing changes, the majority going to the wealthiest. the cost of these decisions continues to smash the budget. Subsiding the Private health insurance industry. The cost of these changes would put the Nations budget well into the black. Who do we see resisting changes. The coalition. The coalition answer? Demonise the poor and underemployed, demonise a few desperate refuges while open the floodgates to immigration at record levels, demonise any minority group they can find Mislead the Nation on Energy and provide unfunded (again) tax cuts to companies that already only pay 19% tax on average. Talk about a stich up. the coalition and its spruikers at the news publication are stitching up the nation with their misinformation. No surprises.
I heard Chris Bowen tell Fran Kelly companies only pay 17% on average and over one third of them pay ZILCH! Advance Australia Unfair.
Who’s we? You are a worry Dismayed.
MTK I am not surprises you cant see what is happening in front of you. You chose wilful blindness and ignorance 50 years ago. No surprises.
I say Dismayed, Labor had 6 years to fix those matters that arouse your resentful envious attitude directed at those who in your view apparently possess a loftier rung on the ladder than your own. They squibbed it.
Btw, are you going to crack a smile for us at some time during 2018 mate?
CoTC. Abbott voted against savings to Welfare for 5 years in opposition. Each and every time changes are mooted the news publications and the treasurer for the real estate industry hillsong Morrison continue their ongoing deceitful misinformation campaign. How have you managed to navigate life being so wilfully ignorant. Ah yes you are probably a former public servant and benefactor of all the largesse over the years who does not want any other generation getting a fair go. You again show all that is wrong with you and your cons. No surprise.
If a laugh is out of the question, you could have at least given us a cheshire smirk mate.
er they had a little interruption called the GFC but still managed to keep electricity prices, unemployment and the rate of debt lower than this mob of criminals.
They inherited a healthy war chest BASSY but they turned out to be a one trick pony.
1% of GDP surplus after blowing $360 billion of $380 billion unbudgeted extra tax revenue from resources is not a war chest. Not to mention the $80 billion a year of unfunded upper class welfare and the ever growing multi $$ billion cost of their changes to Capital gains tax, superannuation etc. The GFC caused tax revenue to drop $170 billion in 18 months. about the same amount of net debt attributed to Labor at the 2013 election by Treasury and the PEFO. Cotc. How is it possible for you to be so averse to facts. Oh wait you claim to be a Christian that probably has a lot to do with it. A decade on you still refuse to accept facts. You continue to prove you are a shallow vessel. You are matching Milton for oxygen theft.
Labor inherited a WAR CHEST…you are barking mad? Labor inherited sweet f’all to (according to Hockey) fight the biggest economic hiccup since 1929…. OK a pizzling 21billion out of a 334billion windfall most spent on PORK…u forget the structural deficit of $90billion reported in the Oz that Howard and Costello left which landed us where we are now and where we will always be.
At a rough guess I think Denis Ryan should be awarded between $3.5-$5 million, tax free. But I wouldn’t begrudge him higher than that. And still nothing will recompense his life, nor the children he sought to protect and serve. Due some overdue good fortune he’s got a good ally in P. Hoysted, whoever he is.
Razor – re your reply to my ‘black lover’ comment , which I admit was needlessly provocative, I did type a lengthy reply which I or Jack thought was not worth showing. It was a late at night reply which was more loquacious than required. The gist was for starters you don’t have to tone down your comments for me mate. And yes I agree and acknowledge the indigenous problem or issue is huge, complex, is not going to disappear overnight and that there are a lot of people working hard to ameliorate the cultural, generational problem that has been done and is manifest today.
In brief my earlier lost response was along the line that yes this land was colonised; taken for a penal colony by a dominant force. Since that time the indigenous people have been essentially discriminated against, and where it suited, for (not in their favour but by exploiting their native experience and proclivities) . Along this line of discrimination, and it continues to this day, our indigenous people have been treated as one. Whether from the hot, humid north or from the cold south, east or west, the aboriginal people have been classified as one. A bit like saying the Spanish are like the Germans and I could go on. Alas, we are not Europe, or Africa. We are essentially a unified continent, as of the date that Jack mentioned.
So much for briefly, Razor, my thoughts were that the indigenous people have suffered primarily due to discrimination. Does it make sense to solve this problem by more discrimination? Why should we continue to treat indigenous people any different to other Australians? The way we treat indigenous people seems akin to those with special needs. Is it equality or special treatment, which is discrimination, and financial handouts that is demanded?
Certainly constitutional acknowledgment and recognition is necessary and long overdue. Both of our major parties have failed us and themselves in this regard.
I think we should desist in defining people as anything but Australian or communist! I
Along my line of opinion (yes, like arseholes!) the brouhaha re 18c (?) , QUT and Triggs was essentially based on some aussie students accessing some room and computers that were “prioritised” for a defined group of aussies. That is elitism, discrimination and segregation in many an observer.
I suggest Razor that this discrimination weakens unity and undermines any chance of an equitable future.
ps Wissendorf, re your comments on %’s (if I remember right), i’m not sure how they roll in the US, or here for that matter, but the whole (or the sums of the whole) idea of half caste etc smells a bit wiffy, even for my non pc head space. which half is missing??
Say no to bureaucratic and institutionalised discrimination. One form for all, one law for all.
And spare a thought for those convicts (and obviously their descendants) who were not only dispossessed from their land but sent to the other side of the world, which may at first have been considered hell on earth or at best purgatory. No Bondi Icebergs back then.
You’re missing something alright. Boy are you missing something.
I’d hazard a guess it is the supramarginal gyrus. Not your fault, all is forgiven.
As opposed to your super supra-marginal gyrus?
Articulate away old boy!
Many a true word spoken in jest Mack. Quite so, and thank you for your kind invitation. We must consider of course the roles of nature and nurture.
I will only make the observation that the brats born in fortunate circumstances are often quite lacking in empathy. Having had the good things handed to them on a plate and never having had to really struggle against anything, though they will of course imagine and state otherwise for lack of experience, they insist that their success came from a level playing field and in the final analysis they construct a selfish argument that all should be treated equally. In order to accentuate their own success, which was almost inevitable barring imbecility.
It never enters their egocentric elitist conditioned heads that society functions on co-operation, generosity and goodwill, concepts foreign to themselves and that a helping hand to the disadvantaged is crucial to maintaining the society from which they derive for themselves a decidedly unequal benefit.
Cheers. Glad to help.
No doubt Jean was searching for a brain whilst serfing the net, Mack. At least he is not harassing the old ducks at the local bingo hall.
Or sometimes in spite of their imbecility.
Milton,
Couldn’t agree more on Triggs. At best absolute incompetence at worst something more sinister. Discrimination does weaken but at times is necessary to allow a group of individuals to chose to enjoy the benefits of our society or otherwise. At the moment most people, particularly children, in the remote communities do not have the choice nor do they look like ever getting it. I’ve said it on this site numerous times ‘The Bringing Them Home’ report is the single worst thing to happen to aboriginal children in the last 50yrs.
Another thing to consider is, currently, many many aboriginal people are being manipulated by the far left and the Greens for their own agendas. Thankfully some elders are awake to this and doing their best to intervene on behalf of the majority. It takes resources to assist these people so they are not taken advantage of.
Love your posts Milton I suppose the ‘Black Lover’ phrase found me a bit thin skinned. No pun intended.
Do Dutss, Turnbull and Morrison lie?
Their politicians Bassy of course they do.
you cons continue to prove your misogynist true selves. one woman after another you attack purely because they dare to highlight the ongoing deficiencies of your ideology. No surprises.
What tha!
Thought Australia Day was a good time to read ‘UnAustralian of the Year’, by BLeak. Brilliant. A much better read than Hilary Clinton, though, in a strange way, she was almost as funny, but for all the wrong reasons.
Anyone think the Coalishun’s brain fart today about saving the economy by boosting the good ole ‘military industrial complex’ when we struggle to even make toothbrushes is bordering on insane? Just where did that come from? Are we expected to jump for joy and run ticker tape parades over this? Honestly, this mob needs the boot and to come back with new, younger and saner troops the next time around.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
Agree with you 100% Trivalve and posted my disgust at this move below too in a post. Time for Turnbull to start a farewell Tour and unlike Abbott who lingers like a bad smell, actually go! Cheers
bordering???
classic bs soundbite material
We have LOST CONTROL OF OUR BORDERS…..aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! Look out people are landing on beaches everywhere!
Turnbull; “Jesus Christ on a rocket sled. The Yanks want how much for a bolt and nut?”
Bean Counter. “Well Prime Minister defence consumables and replacement parts are expensive.”
Turnbull: *%#$&% my brown dog! We’ve got get In on this lurk.”
The Yanks will just give the Saudis a few billion spondoolies worth of arms for free and put Malcolm out of business before it gets going anyway. What a crock.
The House of Saud always pays cash.
It’s a handout to the cronies Mack. The loot will be sucked up in management fees and some token R&D.
It occurs to me that if we survive AGW long enough to care, the Chinese with their centrally planned economy will develop weapons systems so effective the projected might of the US British and Saudi militaries will be rendered impotent.
You live by the sword, you die by the sword.. Metaphorically of course.
Do you see what I did there? Put a scare up the peasants. I’ll have them begging the government to spend more on weapons.
“if we survive AGW” – wow! that’s an about-face if ever there was one,coming from you JB. What’s up me old mate, having second thoughts?
Sigh. “If we survive AGW long enough to care ….”
Now pay attention Carl. Have you ever actually made it through reading a complete sentence?
I have two close friends tied up in defence manufacturing TV and this a huge growth area. Why should we not benefit? It is one area where our manufacturing costs do not impact as much because our reputation for high quality precision work negates this. We take India and China out of the equation. Mak4s up for all those jobs manufacting solar panels and wind turbines which never eventuated. You never hear the Greens rolling that one out anymore. They’ve switched lines to tourism. Just like we went from global warming to climate change.
says it all
I have two close friends tied up in defence manufacturing TV and this a huge growth area. Why should we not benefit?
Well why shouldn’t we smoke?
It’s bad for your lungs. Try and keep on the thread Razor.
YOU SAY:- “I have two close friends tied up in defence manufacturing TV and this a huge growth area. ”
With $200billion to spend on hardware I see it as a HUGE waste area and has been proven so time and time again. Defence which is some sort of Sacred Cow when it comes down to budget restraint.
“Take India and China out of the equation. ”
Now that’s going to take a lot of bombs and guns and things. With your holistic plan I’m beginning to see that this weapons manufacturing thing could have some legs.
If and only if, we’ll flog the patents to Mitsubishi or GD.
Well …… you’ve gotta consider the macroeconomic scene Triv.
Its a classic example of the production possibility factor. Apparently we’ve only got two options and as our butter production is down 40%, well ……. you know the rest.
Have U notices the price of butter skyrocketing at Woolies Toaster?
“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.” Herman Goering would know.
‘What if’ question Jack. How high did the corruption (wilful dereliction of duty) go? Could Ryan have forwarded the victim statements to a higher office, say, the Commissioner, or a Judge? Was there no way to bypass his immediate superiors? I’m not being critical, I’m trying to get a handle on how hard it was for Ryan to break this case. Who if any of the actors are still alive?
In those days Wiss absolutely impossible. To say he may have found himself on the wrong end of some ‘charges’ is not a fantasy. JTI would probably agree with this assumption. A number of very unapplied for and very inconvenient transfers greatly affecting his family would have been the least of his worries if things really got hot.
So the Looters want to be arms dealers now? Not satisfied with being the biggest exporters of pollution to our trading partners they now wanna export arms to the Saudis, a criminal conspiracy dressed in bedsheets. Great nation building stuff this. How much longer before this mob are shunted?
Australia has to be better than this.
This grubby pathetic government is trashing what’s left of our already laughable reputation around the world.
Do they actually think “military dealer” is seen as any different from ‘arms trading’? How much lower can we go?
If the DFAT fashion diplomacy policy is successful they’ll at least be colourful bedsheets BASSY.
Also, are you suggesting Australia should have a hands-off policy on arms dealing?
YES
Hehe nice one, Carl
NO! Don’t encourage him. Those jokes are terrible.
At least Carl adds some cheer to the doom and gloom JB. It’s not all bad. Go watch some tennis.
Cheers Boa.
They didn’t see the joke 😁
Yvonne we see you each and every time.
You didnt either Gary. No surprises there
I did , but then I was reading Readers Digest in the 50’s and 60’s so I know what to look for.