The reaction to Pell’s case has forced us to think the previously unthinkable
What happens when the Australian establishment lines up behind a convicted paedophile?
“Supporting a convicted pedophile is morally wrong” was an uncontroversial statement in Australia a few days ago. It is no longer, and that change – really a tectonic one – has shifted the grounds of debate so far it is hard to know where to stand. It is a shift that began immediately as well: minutes after Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on child sexual assault charges, a former deputy prime minister was shaking his hand. Within hours, he had the character endorsement of one former prime minister, and the phoned-in counsel of another. The evening Pell’s conviction was made public the pages of our largest media organisation were being used to attack the courts, the jury system and the rest of the press on his behalf.
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