I personally do not like Senator Nick Zenaphon because he tends to make himself the hero of the ordinary people,I am looking after you, he normally vets all his correspondence to only include those he feels will advance his own ego with the public, hence the outburst with the two Catholic priests in question.

I do not like the Catholic church or any church either,they tend to go the opposite of Nick Zenaphon and do their best to hide their wrong doings from the public, we are here for you, including paedophilia and other misdeeds, like brainwashing young children into a particular religion when it should be their choice later in life.

I am no fan of the Catholic church but it is gross hypocrisy to have Xenophon taking the moral high ground when our Parliament is full of people who have very questionable moral backgrounds. If he wants to go on a moral cruscade he should look inhouse instead of being cowardly enough to name someone who has not faced court and is unable to defend himself. Stinks of self righteousness to me.

It appears there is no shortage of self-righteousness in South Australia, Runner, according to some of these posts.

Xenophon acted on his own to name and shame and individual who is innocent at law. As per the article, he is a modern day US Senator Joseph McCarthy, who believes evil and malfeasance is everywhere. But Xenophon knows he has gone too far this time.

He is madly trying to wedge the Catholic and Anglican Churches but he would be better advised to prepare for a Senate investigation in to his own conduct.

As a digression, what is it with Crow eaters and their beatification of Xenophon? He is a small time player in the Senate. Maybe he sells newspapers.

"if you had looked at the Adelaide Advertiser online poll on this issue you would have seen that about 2/3rds supported Xenophon's actions in naming the Catholic priest".

I could not find that poll today, but for interest just timed myself and on another poll easily voted 14 times in 2 minutes, equating to, say 200-500 votes per hour, depending on dexterity and industry.

I'd not be surprised if someone with greater interest and resolve than I in this matter could automate the process and achieve an even faster voting rate, then have lunch while the "bot" voted away.

Taxpayer-funded feminists groups are widely reputed to set to work swamping such "polls" on Family Law issues; maybe Xenophon's staff, or other anti-Catholic, or pro-Xenophon did the same in this "poll".

michael_in_adelaide is apparently naive enough to take notice of these rubbish polls; hopefully the vast majority, and particularly those with influence are more realistic.

Is it not amazing that so many posters stray off so many topics only to descend into political wrangling?, surely there are more interesting topics to discuss. This topic is about child abuse, one of the worst crimes to commit, given that the victims were children. Politics is a farce these days, but serious stuff seems to be relegated to the bottom of the pile...
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No - the story is about the misuse of Parliamentary Privilege.