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.
Carl on the Coast says:February 1, 2018 at 12:26 pm “Sour grapes you missed out Dismayed, eh. But what other skills does a retired roustabout rigger have these days?”
Don’t defame me carl. Not retired, but back in the very early 90’s I was a rigger qualified roustabout one of the few with actual rigging qualifications. You may have missed it but that was almost 3 decades ago and you prove constantly you don’t have the ability to keep up with what is happening the world. Again you blindly support the absolute rorting and corruption of using his position of AG to gift huge $ paying jobs to friends of his political party and the best you can come up with is some piss weak go at me for starting out as roustabout. Try all your like you irrelevant old fool. I am proud to have started life as a roustabout that went onto perform successfully in Senior Operational positions all over the planet and continue to do so in various roles now. I know I have helped Nations provide power for their people and helped give young people skills and knowledge that they have used to further themselves and provide for their families. I am glad I will never be a selfish insular fool such as you.
Now take a deep breath and if at all possible try to calm down Dismayed.
I’m so pleased for you that you’re apparently still gainfully employed and that you’ve used your skills to advance the lives of others. But you do yourself a great disservice when you use spurious descriptors and spew silly assumptions about those who may have a differing opinion to your own. For some reason or another you present as a rather thin-skinned chap who apparently hasn’t quite perfected the finesse of gracefully rolling with the punches.
For my own sake, it’s neither here nor there that you’ve assumed I’m a “bigoted, wilfully useless, pig ignorant, irrelevant, ill informed, selfish, insular old fool of an oxygen thief and former public service benefactor of largesse” (all your own descriptors); as you have also done with others on here.
But at some stage in the near future surely you must realise Dismayed that even your assumptions have outlived their usefulness.
Think about it mate.
don’t defame me carl. again. I am glad you have acknowledged I have been honest and polite towards you. My comment was written in cool calm collected manner. It is old tea cosy’s like you that have difficulty facing the real world. You don’t offer different opinion you project exactly what you “use spurious descriptors” in fact you outright misinform so you don’t have to admit and accept your ideology is just wrong. move along carl.I am not wasting anymore oxygen on you.
Stop with the “don’t defame me’s” please Dismayed. It gives me the shits.
Matey, change your name to Luggage Point will ya, much more suitable than Dismayed.
not interested mtk. you were a dinosaur when you arrived here. you knock yourself over with each of your wild missing swings. I almost feel sorry for you then remember you chose your own blindness. again. Move along life is to short to waste on tings like you. NO surprises.
EEEwwww…
“The corpse of Charles Manson will remain in a morgue for at least another month before would-be heirs can argue in court over who gets his remains.”
Get him to a taxidermist and put him in the Smithsonian.
That swastika on his bonce is there forever.
Ew, gross
SA continues to export power into the National Grid as it has done for over 12 months so that QLD and NSW can keep the lights on.
What about Victoria’s lights or is the grid selective?
wow. razor you really are lost. Yes actually the Distribution grid is selective or should I say determined by local variations. The Privately owned power distribution companies and AEMO stated early in the week local distribution failures caused the blackouts in Vic. There was over 1300 kw of excess power available but poorly maintained distribution systems failed. Again Nothing to do with Generation. You don’t even understand the difference between Generation and distribution just like your coalition mates since Sept. 2016 you have been confusing transmission issues with Generation issues. Confusing and then deliberately lying to the Nation about them. It is clear you don’t have any understanding of how the system works. That voodoo electricity stuff really is the devils work to old coal burners like you. No Surprises
Absolute Bollocks, Dismayed. you live in fairyland lad or lassie. Cheers
Bernard Tomic’s decline is getting awful to watch. I think he is more desperate than the Tomic he presents to the public.He needs help. Peter FitzSimons has written a very good article in The Age today. Depression manifests in different ways. I hope the kid takes Fitzsimons’ advice comes out of it for the better.
It is indeed terrible Boadicea and do hope he doesn’t try a return to professional tennis as it will grind him down further, he hasn’t right now what it takes to even get in the top 200. Cheers
Was going to make a cabinet cabinet joke but they’ll be thick on the ground. Expecting some good cartoons today though.
Come off it TV you really pulled that one out of the bottom drawer! 🤓
Good one Razor. You got a handle on that.
Jean Baptiste says:
JANUARY 31, 2018 AT 4:19 PM
Tell you what Jean, you have lit my fire. With all that R&D and marketing and networking that will be required, we can make a motza if we get in on the ground floor. Who cares if the U.S. military supply conspirators running dog capitalists put the kibosh on the scheme eventually. We will have made our loot, stashed it in a suitable low tax haven, and helped the Chinese sneak in the side door while Mal & Donny T head butt each other silly over the fiasco. I’ll be in the M.E. knocking on doors and brushing up on my Arabic if you don’t hear from me for a while. I hear office space is still a bargain in Dubai these days, oversupply and all that. Better still, Bahrain is connected by a causeway and I have contacts there, bugger Dubai.
Practice your Mandarin , and Cantonese for that matter JB, you are going to need it. Simple phrases spoken politely like, “How much is it worth to you” and “what’s my percentage” will suffice after the usual pleasantries. Now, where the hell is my passport and platinum Skywards card.
Aw bugger that Mack. That sounds like work. I was thinking more of theoretical weapons systems and hitting a dopey minister up for some R&D dosh. Like a hundred mill or so.
But by all means if you grow a beard and gussie up in some Sheikh clobber and say things like,
“We are very excited about Mr Baptistes invisible rockets and tanks and we are prepared to buy 5 billion dollars worth of each in the first production run. This must be kept top secret the enemies of the free world must not learn of these amazing weapons.”
I’ve already completed the blueprints for both weapons platforms but obviously I cannot show you.
Invisible rockets, invisible blueprints – way clever! Put me down for a couple big B’s worth.
Wait till you get a load of the missile codenamed Kung Pao rocket, it’s awesome.
We have lost control of our borders…look out the Yellow Peril Scare is on again!
Al Gore – old school carnie, snake oil seller and don’t the rubes just lap it up. Nothing like an atheist to sell a new religion to!
Gore a modern day Colonel Parker imho Milton but as least Parker had Elvis to sell whereas Gore has nothing. Cheers
Right Milt. He’s really suckered the Chinese eh?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-energy-renewables/china-to-plow-361-billion-into-renewable-fuel-by-2020-idUSKBN14P06P
What planet are you on by the way?
Hello Milton. Perhaps I have been living a sheltered life, but what is a rube?
NSFW mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dx9KaTKxE
Enough to make one defect, comrades!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y4pdH12xDM
pass the wodka
I prefer the girls myself, but each to their own.
I don’t think you need to defect these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rhp7Q7Ceq8
Yeah, so boring and stodgy the Russians. You’re living in a bubble Milton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014
The Leningrad Cowboys are from Finland, Baptiste. Funny though because I nearly sent this last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enUMRBM2S3o
I see Bill Shorten has now reversed his NPC statement on private health insurance. Naturally, Bill couldn’t front the press himself to spit it out but trotted out the Health shadow to confirm that ‘Labor now has no plans to change the private health rebate’.
Dismayed must be scratching his head.
Don’t defame me carl. I still believe a cut to the $6 billion a year subsidy to the Private Health insurance industry is required. You again show you do not support a market outcome and blindly follow and swallow whatever your right wing and conservative masters tell you to. Why should that industry be Subsidised so heavily? the Government could use some of those $ billions $ to improve access to the Public Health system which IS more efficient than the Private system and make the Private Industry become efficient and force them to provide lower cost policies that can actually provide health outcomes. Why should the Executives continue to allocate themselves huge pay increases funded by the taxpayer while access to extras and services is cut which forces many holding Private health insurance back into the Public system? Amazing how someone can get to your stage in life and be so ill informed or is it wilful ignorance? Then again being cons sheep that you are really is. No surprises.
Ask Bill you dope!
The difference between you cons and those that live in the middle is that we actually have the capacity to think for ourselves. I know the thought is too much for an old con like you to consider. No surprises.
Yes another backdown by Stan. It is a RORT and should be stopped
I’m guessing this will be Wenger’s last year at the helm of Arsenal.
And probably the same for Shorten. He is performing miracles in making Turnbull seem plausible.
To whom?
In comparison.
“plausible”? The puppet’s in a death spiral Milton.
Going for the profits of war & violence gives you the heads-up of the character of this nasty lot.