Paul,

For starters no one was rectally abused, so you are even worse, secondly I was discussing the routine followed during the service, and finally it was SR that said "The only doubt of guilt came from the testimony of 4 witnesses who were essentially asked to remember what occurred on a specific day over two decades ago".

Epic fail Paul.

Mr 0,

The bubonic plague was not contagious, it was a bacteria spread by fleas carried by rats. Attending church would not significantly increase its communicability.

Shadow Minister,

I don't recall ever saying that the bubonic plague was contagious.

I have said somewhere that it was caused by a virus carried by fleas that had a preference for black rats as their primary host and when the rats all died from the disease the fleas jumped on the next dirtiest host, being us humans.

Maybe you have me mixed up with someone else. Or maybe you envy me so much for being an Arts graduate who knows all about the Arts things like history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, etc., that you take any and every chance to rub dirt in my face. I have worked in the engineering game for 50 years so I just put your behaviour down to being the sort of thing I expect to see from someone like you who is just an engineer.

A Melbourne PhD student says she was groped by a professor and is handed $700,000. Good money for someone who knows she will never get a job with her useless doctorate. And, it's pretty clear that money is what these complaints are about. It could turn into a growth industry, particularly in Melbourne, where Chairman Dan says, "I believe you".

If there has been an offence, the perpetrator should be punished. Nobody should gain financially.

tbbn has no idea about the real world.

yes, you can get employment with PhD's, and yes you can get money when you are wronged either through settlements or the the courts.

go back to sleep ttbn.

From The New York Times:

" The world may never be able to assess whether
the high court's reasoning was sound."

"Legal experts say that the case made clear just how
much power judges in Australia have to suppress public
oversight and overrule jury verdicts raising questions
about whether the system adequately values citizen
participation at every stage critics argue."

" Australian courts exhibited a penchant for secrecy
and insular decision making that resembled the
Catholic Church's flawed and damaging responses to
sexual abuse within its ranks."

"The case has been a model of opaque operations,
starting with judges who dismissed related allegations
early on, followed by gag orders preventing media coverage
and a refusal to release evidence - even when a jury
verdict is dismissed as unreasonable."

http://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/australia/cardinal-pell-acquittal.html

Chris,

The French has a good term that describes ttbn: Resentement. We might simply call it sour grapes.