Gough Whitlam and how Australia facilitated a child sexual abuse crisis

By Joanne McCarthy
February 26 2017 - 12:00pm
Visit: Gough Whitlam and Pope Paul VI in the Vatican in April, 1973, after Australia granted diplomatic recognition to the Holy See.
Visit: Gough Whitlam and Pope Paul VI in the Vatican in April, 1973, after Australia granted diplomatic recognition to the Holy See.

GOUGH Whitlam wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI in October, 2012, nearly four decades after his government granted formal diplomatic recognition to the Vatican, and only weeks before another Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, established a royal commission that would expose the extent of child sexual abuse within the Australian Catholic Church.

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