Imagine in this age of instant gratification, having to wait for something, anything for 45 years. Then think what it must be like to have to wait so long for something as fundamental as the truth.
Former Victoria Police detective, Denis Ryan, turned 86 last month.
In 1972, he was forced out of the Victoria Police Force after trying to bring the pedophile priest, Monsignor John Day, to justice.
Forty years later, Denis came to my home and together we wrote the book of that appalling story, Unholy Trinity: The Hunt for the Pedophile Priest Monsignor John Day”.
At the time I cautioned Denis about setting his expectations too high. The subject material of the book was so disturbing I doubted it would be a bestseller. To publisher Allen & Unwin’s credit they published anyway.
Full; column published here.
Gut-wrenching, Jack. So so sad.
Excellent program that will bring these evil acts out into the public awareness well and truly. The ordeal of the Fosters had me in tears. It doesn’t seem fair that he should be taken too.
Thank you.
It was very good. Well done to Paul Kennedy and the ABC.
Here I was thinking Paul Kennedy was just a sports presenter Jack the Insider but I was wrong. When he broke down on camera I lost it too. Chrissie Foster is one courageous woman and her late husband Anthony would be very proud of her fighting spirit.
Many victims may never tell their story, actually sixty percent was the figure quoted, but now after the RC & a relentless persuit of the truth by dedicated individuals including yourself, my hope is they’ll find a little peace knowing the facts are publicly acknowledged.
I remain astonished that people blindly continue to hold the catholic church in high esteem when they’ve spent millions of dollars defending their pedophile god-men for the rapes of little children. If there’s any justice, those donation plates they’ve always passed around should be empty just like their rotten souls.
Not many in the pews these days Bella. Just a sprinkling of elderly in the first couple of rows. So not much being raked in thankfully. They have enough valuable property to flog and support themselves.
The Catholic church in Australia has over $100 million in real estate holdings alone. The institutions should pay and pay heavily. The taxpayer already gives these money making delusional group think enterprises a free ride with no tax, direct funding and other concessions.
Kennett lost some skin.
He sure did and he sure should.
Yes he did and yes he should have
His comments really surprised me, Jack. I thought he was a more empathetic human being
What are the coalition government doing about these huge problems? Nothing. No surprises. Fancy propping up the Private Health Insurance industry to the tune of $11 billion per year while making it harder for the poorest, the elderly and sickest people from accessing preventive medicine measures. Worst government in Nations history.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/new-ti-report-rent-seekers-corruption-risks-australian-mining-industry/
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/john-menadue-phi-wasteful-unfair-11-billion-boon-for-health-insurance-lobby/
Just more coalition rubbish. Check out the other story on here regarding Corporate welfare. The coalition go after the poorest in the nation and blame and shame them while splashing as much cash as they can into the corporate coffers.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/privatisation-gravy-train-rolls-on/
Top stuff Dismayed. You’re doing good work as ever.
Hey! look over there the chinese. Never mind the the other influences.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/agents-influence-australian-strategic-policy-institute/
Bassman, don’t forget that real disposable income has fallen 3.3% since the coalition was elected. Also GDP has plummeted. Oh did you mention of the companies that pay tax the average rate was 17% the US Congressional Budget office calculates Australia’s effective company tax rate at 14% the coalition plan is to lower it without anyway to fund the loss and its own data suggests it will take decades to change economic activity by about 0.5% or 3 months ahead of not cutting the tax rate. Debt is out of control under the coalition it has more than doubled in 4 years. Spending is still at GFC emergency levels tax has lifted 2% of GDP and that is before the upcoming medicare lift on the lowest earning Australians to Refund the NDIS after Hillsong Morrison diverted funds out of it in 2014. Worst government in Nations history. Yet still ignorant people support it.
If Chinese influence in Oz is as rampant and Dutts make out to be no Liberal government
would ever get elected! Der ya go Bald!
We are going back to the Moon, Mr Insider, as POTUS Trump authorises that bunch of slackers, NASA, to pull their fingers out and make sure we beat China who are also going, plus Elon Musk as well. Looks like it may end up quite crowded on the Moon. Apollo 11,12,14,15,16 and 17 have already been there and how I do remember those endeavours. Of course we do have a couple of “cavemen” who say “No Henry we never went!”. Of course we did and back we are going! Thank you Neil and Buzz for your pioneering efforts in July 1969 and Mike for waiting for the chaps in the Command Module.
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I expect they should be able to dust off all that old equipment and get the job done in say what , 12 months?
Another monumental scam to transfer trillions of bucks from the treasury to the usual suspects. The mushrooms will believe anything.
Buzz Aldrin was at the launch of the new Moon program, Mr Baptiste, how we well remember Buzz coming down the steps of the LEM and joining Neil on the Moons surface. Strangely Neil never did say too much about his on the Moon experience still each to their own. Cheers
Henry! If they had landed on the moon we would have thousands of pictures and film of the beautiful blue planet slowly revolving, and images of the Sun to gasp at in delight.
On the one hand I still have a belief system propagated by a barrage of images and persuasive dialogue that we landed on the moon. That’s on the hard drive, from classic brain washing techniques , it cannot be a erased.
But simple logic and a basic knowledge of physics informs me that we humans will probably never land on the moon.
If the faking of the moon landings weren’t so execrably bad, intentionally so I believe, I might too be stuck with the fraud and die a simple fool. And if in the unlikely event of an afterlife I would be kicking myself for eternity.
If the military industrial complex cons trillions out of the American people on another phony “Apollo” programne, that’s fine with me. They have done much worse things with the loot in the past.
Hail to thee blythe space cadet.
I note you are slowly coming around to the “possibility’ of the Moon Landings having happened Mr Baptiste and that is good it shows you are of sober thought in your old age and not the wild radical you used to be. Bless POTUS Trump for sending us back there only wish they would give me a berth in “Lunar Mooner 8”, I could then give you a cheerio from the Moons surface as you sat in your lounge eating “crow” . Cheers
Clearly you lack the imagination to conceive how you might have been fooled by that ridiculous fraud Henry, and you are clearly informed from a hopeless inability to comprehend unambiguous statements.
Didn’t George W Bush state that the US was going “send men to moon” by 2015?
Note he didn’t say “send men back to the moon”.
No doubt someone quietly took him aside and gave him a quick lesson in reality, like “It cant be done Georgie”. Any such silly talk went away very quickly.
My prediction Henry is that no human will travel more than 1500 kilometres from the Earth’s surface in the next ten years, and we will never send humans to the Moon .
Henry, do you wind up JB deliberately or is it on a schedule to bring up the moon landings every now and then. You know how he is on this subject.
I hope he is doing it deliberately Mack. I do so enjoy Henry’s goadings. It is extremely amusing to realise that most people still believe that outrageous nonsense.
PS Henry knows it didn’t happen, he just cant make the step up.
Wow Henry what a fabulous idea, but just a small question if I may. Just have to wonder why they had to be ‘ordered’ by the Grand Poohbah to re-activate a moon landing when they ‘decided’ to shelve any further “giant steps for mankind” for the past 38 years?
Do they know if they kept the amazing little tiny Apollo 11 tin space rocket cos it easily completed the mission unlike the newer model failures.
I read that Trump wants to build a space station on the Moon before the likes of Branson & Musk steal his idea. One more questiom if I may Henry…how do the required construction materials & relevant tradies turn up & I dunno, stay on a worksite without gravity?
Trump’s losing the plot altogether I reckon…🚀
No gravity? The moon has 1/6 of Earth’s gravity and Mars 1/3. Even a cricket ball has some negligible gravity.
What I’d like to know Bella, who is going to draft the EBA? Imagine it, low gravity allowance, moon dust allowance, titanium tool allowance, living away from the planet allowance, dodgy beer after work allowance, satellite phone allowance, no-smoking possible allowance, oxygen bonus, no gear allowance, the EBA is going to be one helluva document with a huge paycheck attached!
Hahaha MacktK 🌘
Maybe add cramped space allowance, lethal cosmic radiation allowance & every workers bad dream, the BONG conditions – Bail Out No Go – somewhat like FIFO only no FO.
Fear not Bella. When astronauts went from the standard low Earth to only 800 kilometres all hell broke loose with strident panicky demands to return to a lower orbit. Exactly as predicted in the 1950’s.
It gets dramatically more hostile further out.
Nobody will be building anything on the moon even if they could get there, which they cannot.
Having said that the Russians were planning an attempt around the mid 2030’s , if they can develop some extraordinary type of electronic shielding. I doubt it!
I know how brainwashing works, and established belief always defers to logic, but for God’s sake, it’s the bloody sun! Don’t people have a clue what it is? And it’s only nine minutes away with hardly a molecule between our magnetosphere and it!
Oops! That should read, “logic defers to established belief”. However wacky the established belief.
Give ’em heaps Ms B.
Jeez I tell you what if anyone else was commenting as much as Yvonne she and razor would be complaining about it and threatening to leave again.. No surprises.
I enjoy reading the comments and contributing Dismayed.
Calm down and try and be nice. It’s Christmas.
The standard of cartooning at SMHerald has dropped markedly since they sacked the brilliant Moir. There are so many other duds they could have dropped. I used to briefly look at Clement when he tooned for the FIN review (I think) I found him totally unfunny there and just as unfunny here. I was totally gobsmacked that the Oz did not consider picking up Moir over Clement where he gets only 1 toon a week at SMH. Kudelka never fails here though. Just brilliant.
You can subscribe to Moir’s toons for $4 a month
Shorten to Sam: ”You have to go, Sam – before the Bennelong election on Saturday – I’ll pop KK into your vacant senate seat if she loses”