When abbott faces up to that female at uni we will see who tells lies or not. The lame horse may never recover, and should be put down.
A Royal commission, will be thorough and fair, there is no reason not to think that would not be the case.

Some, including you Hasbeen seem unable to have rational thoughts.
To think, in defense of this Church, one known for centurys to have power beyond its right.
AT ANY COST is unforgivable.
Is Australia due to this hung Parliament, to become as Ireland has been for centurys, racked by hate England planted to control?
Are we, SOME TRULY LOST OF US, saying the children do not need protection.
See the sad but descriptive SM, yes Labor MPs, mostly Catholics, have committed these sins, should be sent to prison forever for it.
EVERY child sex offender should go with them.
Are there other reasons? why are some not branding this action for what it is, a great step toward ending the terror too many face.
On this issue SOME should be shamed, by nothing more than their own words.

Paul1405 wrote
'I believe there is enough evidence to declare the Catholic Church in Australia a criminal organization, like the Hells Angles'. Geometry villains aside, if he wants to ban the catholic church, surely he would want to ban muslims as they are guilty of wife-beatings, 'honour killing', female genital mutilation and fomenting hatred against the west amongst many more crimes.

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On the contrary, Hasbeen, isn't it amazing that a leader finally emerges who has the guts to call a royal commission on the issue of institutional abuse and ongoing cover-ups - and all the usual suspects can do is try and smear it into a partisan political issue.
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Yet she won't even investigate her own kind re, The Heiner Affair!
Seems more like a witch hunt to me, one to discredit anyone associated with Catholicism.

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Let's hope it has teeth.
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Unlikely. As soon as it starts to get close to home, watch them all run for the shredders. They have plenty of teeth for that!

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/accused-molesting-priest-blamed-god/story-e6frg6nf-1226516709160
Find it in your heart to read the link.
To see the boy, now mans fear, and life from that point on.
Find too how you came to think this is about politics.
Tell me my well informed friends.
Do you understand the Liberal Coalition will be in power long before this Royal Commission ends?
Who will sweep what under the carpet?
Austin Powerless your post at least, unless you only meant it to defend the bad part of the Catholic Church, has wisdom in it.
A Muslim may wed and bed a 9 year old, may mutilate females.
And do both in our country despite the law saying they may not.
Hopefully, some one like you, will demand it be part of this inquiry.
But not at the expense of the world wide criminal part of the Catholic Church we know exists.
SOME have questions to answer, why do they fear our country standing at last for the rights of CHILDREN.

"Seems more like a witch hunt to me, one to discredit anyone associated with Catholicism."

Well there you go...the reason we never seem to get anywhere on this subject is that the minute the finger is pointed in one of the myriad directions where institutional abuse has occurred, we hear the same old lament..."It's a witch hunt"...""Others are doin' it too, so why pick on us", etc.

We need transparency in these institutions.

We don't need cynical narratives and partisan political/religious rantings.