Counting the Cost after Inquiry Rules on Whistleblower Claims

By Dan Box
The Australian
June 6, 2014

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OUTSIDEthe office of the current Catholic bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, in the New South Wales’ Hunter Valley, hangs a sepia portrait of his predecessor, Leo Clarke, the bishop who protected a pedophile priest.

The late, bespectacled, bishop’s repeated failure to report his knowledge of child abuse to police over several decades from 1976 was “inexcusable”, according to the final report of an 18-month state inquiry, handed down last Friday. Yet the portrait will remain.