With the Australian public - in this case the rate payer and the taxpayer funding the events (and obviously intending to participate) - that makes your earlier sledging of the Australian public, viz., "Many Australians have never seen an Aboriginal Australian" entirely unwarranted wouldn't you agree?

Dear Paul,

One final link before I go which may be of interest:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/that-thinking-feeling/imagine-if-george-pell-was-a-teacher-ceo-or-scout-leader-20150520-gh67gh.html

Take care.

Foxy,

National Reconciliation Week seems to have escaped the attention of the local community around here, European, Asian and Aboriginal.

Is Mise,

Those dips from the bucket of taxpayers' hard earned money will be getting spent somewhere on knees-ups for the invited. Not on roads, bridges or anything like that though.

Thanks Foxy,

I had a read of your article, and yes Pell has escaped for the moment, but only for the moment. I believe those, as the Church apologists Shadow Minister describes me, people with an over the top hatred of all things Catholic, politicians, judges, police officers the majority of Australians, pursue these vile church deviates and their supporters, in the long run Pell will be made to account for his part in all this perverted mess.
What am I saying? As another church apologists, Is Mise claims, all is normal with the Catholic Church, these perverted priests are normal, in fact no better or worse than the rest of the community! Well, they might have strayed a little, from time to time, buck heck, please remember when they are not molesting children, they are doing good works, tending the sick and helping the poor, as Shadow is quick to point out. Then to divert attention OTB posts his well worn list of wrong doers Greens, Trotskyists, etc etc. A list that has become such a cliche on the forum, no one can be bothered reading it.

Shadow, you claim I am saying "Assigning them (the Catholic Church) responsibility for all child abuse in Aus ever -- Stupid."

Obviously you did not read my opening post.

<<when it comes to the crime of institutional child abuse in Australia, but they (The Catholic Church) are not alone, and they (The Catholic Church) are not the only organisation to be involved in these heinous acts of physical, sexual and psychological abuse of children, over a very long period of time, there are others.

STUPID, is the one who can not read! Shadow Minister.

It is plainly stupid to try and mitigate the crimes of the Catholic Church by pointing to the crimes within the Aboriginal community, one bears no relationship to the other.

Paul,

"....As another church apologists, Is Mise claims, all is normal with the Catholic Church, these perverted priests are normal, in fact no better or worse than the rest of the community...."

That is not what my quotation implied and well you know it, but with typical Green tactics you attack the messenger and not the content of the message.
The post claimed that the proportionate number of sexual deviates within the Catholic priesthood was not greater tan in other similar organizations.

In my first post in this thread I stated that I favor the death penalty for serial paedophiles, that is hardly considering them normal, clergy or lay.

What do you think would be an appropriate penalty for a homosexual priest who buggered young boys?