BILL Shorten (Labor) and Joe Hockey (Liberal) had a bi-partisan rant against the Royal Commission into child abuse.
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It was therefore curious to hear Shorten say that his mother, in talking him out of being an alter boy, saved him from a paedophile priest and Hockey told us that he had friends who were abused in the Catholic education system.
Then their party leaders blind-sided them by announcing support for the Royal Commission and they both have to backpedal.
Is it a coincidence that both are pretenders for the top job?
If ever there was a more glaring example of politics trumping moral courage, I have yet to see it.
This is a sobering lesson to all politicians that being the first to show moral courage is a better look than being just another piece of driftwood being dragged along with the tide.
Adrian Wollaston, Port Macquarie