http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/catholic-churchs-secret-sex-files-20121116-29hkb.html
And some say we do not need this inquiry?
Suffer the little Children.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/politics/independents-day--again-20121116-29heq.html
Well we have made our choice.
Enough said about our children.
The link is outstanding.
It highlights rather than a Gillard move to protect, like much she does it was forced on her, by public opinion.
A hung Parliament is a stalled one,at least this close to an election.
No matter what the concerns, a need not to make mistakes over rules doing the right thing.
As this inquiry progresses, let us hope it is not a whitewash,that heads roll and prison doors slam.

One thing that has to be dealt with is the so called 'sanctity of the Catholic confessional' Archy Pell Australia's number one pedophile hider said "if a priest heard the confession of a fellow priest detailing child abuse then it was inviolate, meaning there was no obligation to report the crime." The old Catholic belief, say 3 Hail Mary's and all is forgiven.
When I attended Catholic School in the 1960's, Friday confession was mandatory. It was not uncommon that after you had fed "Father" a bit of BS about what evilness you had been up to for the pass week, he would ask is there anything else? "No Father"....."No impure thoughts... or actions?" The old grub wanted to known if you had been jerking the gherkin while dreaming about that stunner Susy the Floozy for the convent school next door. I'm sure the old grub has his hand on it, ready for action if you had something to fire him up with.

Apart from the huge financial windfall for the lawyers involved in this mess who is going to pay for the deposition taking and the evidence gathering ?
I had a bit to do with both Fitzgerald royal commissions as an investigator and protector and I can assure you all that this is the biggest legal goldmine and landmine ever to hit the Australian landscape.
This is not to say we shouldn't have it but I do think that the offenders should be made to cover the costs even if it financially destroys them.
Now having said that I believe they are going to have to have at least 7 Royal Commissioners (1 in each state) just the hear the issues which I think , based on past experience3, will take a couple of years in each state.
For those perpetrators that are still alive there will not be enough prisons to incarcerate them all and again there is the cost.
Wow what a nightmare? Wouldn't miss it for all the "tea in China"
Or is Gillard simply clearing the stages for an election based on her perceived empathy?

Welcome but are you sure you want to both support the inquiry, make a great suggestion about costs.
Then take a weak shot at Gillard?
This morning a poll says 95% of us support the whole thing.
What are the reasons the other 5% do not?
Well what percentage are in fact offenders.
Hopefully not that number.
Overnight two more children, not Church related, and over the weekend two Church men charged.
As a result of publicity? hopefully.
GILLARD is in my view a rabbit, but let us confine our criticisms to truth.
American Republicans, Tea Party Nazi,s learned a big lesson about twisting truth.

Belly,
The conservatives never have a problem finding billions to wage war on the third world. However when it comes to something like this royal commission they will start bleating about costs. In my view this is one of Labors best. If Abbott had been in office to do think Archy Pell would have given his Mad Monk the go ahead for this, not a snowflakes chance in hell. Did I use Pell and Hell in the same sentence, now there's a combo.