Your morning Briefing: Cardinal to convict: Pell set for jail today

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Hello readers. George Pell is headed for jail today unless his lawyers can secure bail pending his appeal, and why Julie Bishop was not a true Liberal warrior.

Cardinal George Pell (C) leaves the County Court of Victoria court after prosecutors decided not to proceed with a second trial on alleged historical child sexual offences in Melbourne on February 26, 2019. - Australian Cardinal George Pell, who helped elect popes and ran the Vatican's finances, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys, becoming the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex crimes. (Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake / AFP)

Set for jail

A judge will likely remand George Pell in custody unless his lawyers can secure bail as he appeals his sex abuse verdict. ABC and former Fairfax journalists spent years seeking to ensure George Pell was in the dock as an ogre, not a defendant, and justice never had a fair chance, writes Greg Craven. Fr Frank Brennan writes that he still hopes for truth and justice.

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Curtin shut on Bishop

Liberal powerbrokers worked behind the scenes for weeks to thwart plans by Julie Bishop to choose her own successor, writes Andrew Burrell. Janet Albrechtsen gives the queen of shoes a kicking, saying Bishop got too caught up in her own celebrity and was a policy lightweight compared to true liberal warriors.

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13/02/2018: Ita Buttrose speaking to Stephen Brook about her time as a newspaper editor on the Behind the Media podcast. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Ita’s ABC

Scott Morrison’s cabinet has decided Ita Buttrose will lead the ABC, with an announcement likely this week.

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28/08/2003: News/Property/buildings. 1979. Demolition of Belle Vue Hotel by the Deen brothers. Picture by Ray Cash 35H2462 The Courier-Mail Photo Archive. M3421921

Demolition men

Don’t miss James Jeffrey’s Strewth, which suggests Gladys Berejiklian could learn a thing or two from Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and call in the Deen Brothers to get her stadium knocked down.

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Kudelka’s view

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