As the weather started heating up quickly in November, I went under the house and got out my gardening box. I haven’t touched it since we moved back to Sydney a year ago. Too busy. I got out some things to grow seedlings in. I got out some kitchen paper which I’d put tomato seeds […]
September 21, 2016
Manly Seminary Staff and Associates I should have known from my very first minutes of entering Manly Seminary I was not meant to be there. As I excitedly ascended the winding staircase leading to the first year student’s dormitory with two bags containing all my earthly possessions I was whistling a happy tune. The sound […]
September 15, 2016
CHAPTER 27 – METHODS OF ABUSE The naivety and ridiculous austerity of the parish priest of Merrylands prompted me to request a transfer and probably led to God putting me in the place where I would make most discoveries about the flawed foundations of the Parramatta Diocese – Blacktown. Blacktown 1996-1999 Some of the experiences […]
September 15, 2016
CHAPTER 25 – CONFESSIONAL SECRETS Confessional anecdotes abound. I reckon any priest could tell you the most amazing tales they have heard in the confessional, which no Hollywood script writer would even be willing to invent. Priests reading this chapter would probably know even more ‘exciting’ stories than the ones I am about to share […]
September 15, 2016
CHAPTER 26 – OPPORTUNITY TO ABUSE The worst result of Catholicism’s domination of the private schools’ system is its sordid underbelly of paedophilia. Priests are given unbridled access to the schools they control and it seems even the legal system are averse to interfere with them. There is no accountability over what priests do, while […]
March 18, 2016
Coming into the Macquarie Room I saw ICAC Inspector David Levine outside and then he sat at the back of the public gallery. Two photographers were behind the committee the whole time, mainly taking photos of ICAC Commissioner Megan Latham. At the centre sat the Committee Chair of the joint committee and Liberal Party member […]
October 31, 2015
Christine Holgate, CEO: The China Free Trade Agreement is extremely important to Blackmores, to take products into the Chinese market. At the moment there is a 35% import tariff on products like fish oil. Asian business has had the most outstanding period. More business in Asia brings more business through the facility in Warriewood. She […]
December 3, 2016
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