Pell's trial shows courts can't keep secrets in the internet age | Richard Ackland

Australia’s love affair with suppression orders amounts to one law for big publishers and no law for everyone else

Australians with a modicum of curiosity might well ask what’s been going on.

Cardinal George Pell, an Australian who is one of the most senior people in the hierarchy of the Catholic church, was found guilty in December and no one till now has been allowed to know the details of the charges against him, the trial proceedings, the identity of the complainants, or his conviction.

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