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Disrespected, devalued and degraded medical staff
Readers discussing increasing assaults on hospital and medical staff, Myer windows protest, and Catholic Church legal plays.
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No time or place for slurs in civic discourse
Readers discuss Jacinta Allan’s use of the word ‘moron’ to describe protesters.
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Royal Commission
Gillard urges states to act after ‘deeply concerning’ ruling that Catholic Church is not liable in abuse case
The former Australian prime minister has spoken out after legal experts said the High Court decision could cast doubts over cases against religious orders nationwide.
- by Tony Wright
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If students performed like VCE exam organisers have, they’d fail
Readers discuss the VCE examination debacle, the Myer Christmas windows launch cancellation, Kevin Rudd’s ambassadorial suitability and Donald Trump’s swathe of appointees.
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Courts
‘Free pass for sexually abusive clerics’: Catholic Church not liable, High Court rules
Attorneys general are being urged to push through new laws after the High Court found religious orders did not have vicarious liability for sexual abuse committed by their clerics.
- by Cameron Houston and Holly Hales
Notre-Dame’s bells ring together for first time since fire
The sound of the eight bells rang throughout the city for the first time in five years, a sign of the cathedral’s rebirth as it prepares to reopen to the public next month.
- by Isabella Kwai
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Letters
Freedom of speech has its time and place
Readers discuss the fall out of a student walkout to an anti-abortion and LGBTQ speech at an Australian Catholic University graduation ceremony.
Playing hooky? Why did the ACU vice chancellor skip abortion speech?
Fingers are starting to be pointed over who exactly was behind conservative unionist Joe de Bruyn’s controversial graduation guest appearance.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Anti-abortion keynote speech sparks walkout during Catholic uni graduation
Hundreds of students and staff at Australian Catholic University marched out of Melbourne’s Convention Centre as former union boss Joe de Bruyn railed against gay marriage and abortion during a graduation ceremony.
- by Alex Crowe, Stephen Brook and Caroline Schelle
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US Votes 2024
The dinner that showed why Trump and a cardinal should go to confession
Instead of telling Trump he was over the line, Cardinal Dolan enabled him to cast his campaign as a quasi-religious crusade.
- by Maureen Dowd
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