David Marr
David Marr is a Guardian Australia journalist. He is widely regarded as one of Australia's most influential commentators, writing on subjects such as politics, censorship, the media and the arts. He has been a journalist since 1973 and is the recipient of four Walkley awards for journalism
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Education Office officials, backed by the church’s lawyers, deny they kept details of an abusive priest from Pell
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This loveable, exasperating man won’t rest in peace, says David Marr. He is part of the Australian mythology, to be read and talked about whenever we try to understand what was going on for the past 40 years
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In this special edition, David Marr gives his views on the cardinal’s four days of testimony to the royal commission
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Four days’ evidence of knowing nothing, doing nothing, was punctuated with expressions of sympathy, but the rhetoric seemed cut from cardboard
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On day three of his evidence to the royal commission, Pell cut a wretched figure – and claimed he was deliberately kept in the dark over child abuse
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Had Pell made a big fuss about the abuse going on all around him as a young priest, he would not be at the Vatican. But as he told the royal commission, he stayed clear of such ‘sad stories’
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In evidence to the royal commission, the cardinal acknowledged to a greater extent than before that he had heard complaints of abuse in the diocese of Ballarat, writes David Marr
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Nothing defined the year in Australia as strongly as the response to terrorism, and climate change made its presence felt. Yet when it came to refugees or progressive reform, it remained as indifferent as ever
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The opposition of Australian bishops to equal marriage is ignored by the public and will ultimately be faced down. But not before the established church threatens mayhem and terrifies politicians in defence of the status quo
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Once the evidence revealed at the royal commission in Melbourne would have made headlines everywhere. Now it merely fits into a devastating pattern
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In contrast to the growing hostility towards migrants in Europe, Australia in 2015 remains tolerant, proud and optimistic, according to the latest large-scale study by the Scanlon Foundation
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In an exclusive extract from his new Quarterly Essay, the Guardian Australia journalist profiles a political shapeshifter who now faces his toughest test – going head to head with Malcolm Turnbull
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Muddle and indecision are abandoned on election night as opinion polls dramatically lose face
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No matter what Clegg and Cameron and Miliband are saying, they will do the deals they have to do to win power – it’s the way Westminster works
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However the scythe cuts in next week’s UK general election, both sides will need the Lib Dems, and their leader is setting out his conditions for coalition
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Where is the passion, the protests, the General Election fever? Mute demonstrations seem to reflect the mood of the 2015 campaign
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The leader of Britain’s rightwing Ukip party praises Australian policy but admits some of the methods used to deter migrants are hard to stomach
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The new South Wales premier doesn’t have a silver tongue or a memorable turn of phrase. But the public loves him. Much of that affection rests on the idea, however inaccurate, that he’s hardly a politician at all
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Yeshivah leaders in Sydney and Melbourne chose to preserve the prestige of their faith over the safety of children. A national inquiry that reverberated around the world painted a devastating picture of how individuals were abandoned and ostracised as they fought to end the code of silence
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Instead of frank admissions and a fresh vision with equity at its heart, the prime minister gave us mechanical policy tweaks indicating little shift in course
Topics
- Australian politics
- George Pell
- Royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
- Catholicism
- Australian immigration and asylum
- Labor party
- Tony Abbott
- General election 2015
- Religion
- Australian election 2016
- Christianity
- Refugees
- Coalition
- Scottish National party (SNP)
- Nick Clegg
- Labour
- Vatican
- Bill Shorten
- Liberal party
- Malcolm Turnbull
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