KIERAN TAPSELL ON VATICAN BLOCKING BISHOPS, THEN: THE INTERVIEW: GAYBY BABY: SAME SEX FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS

By Jennifer Fleming
ABC - Sunday Nights
August 30, 2015

http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s4302886.htm

Shane Mallard MLC, Maya Newell, Noel Debien

STORY 1

You may or may not Have been keeping your eye on the Royal Commission into sexual abuse, but on Monday last week, there was some important testimony given.You probably heard the bishop's opinion about Cardinal Pell - that he broke the unity of the Australian Catholic bishops response. Those were the headlines

But Retired Catholic bishop Geoffrey Robinson, who led the church's response to sexual abuse right up until 2004 gave MUCH more significant testimony than that. And the media seems to have largely ignored it.He got an earlier hearing because the bishop has terminal cancer.

Not only his words, but the documents TABLED in evidence are quite important in understanding how Australian Catholic leaders had one arm tied behind their back the whole time. By the Vatican. More importantly, they still do in 2015. Right now.

These matter caught the eye of our special guest , Kieran Tapsell. He's a lawyer, and the author of a book called Potiphar's wife- about the deep secrecy surrounding sexual abuse in church circles. The Pontifical Secret.

STORY 2
Now to a new film that has gotten more media coverage in NSW and Victoria than many blockbusters.

The maker of the film GAYBE BABY - a film about family life in same-sex couples joins us, together with NSW Member of Parliament Shayne Mallard MLC..

Mentioned in two state parliaments. Oddly in the same week that Victoria banned religious instruction in state schools from next year.

The key school, Burwood Girls High has Religious Instruction scheduled in School hours.

One of the ministers involved in their Special religious education, Presbyterian Mark Powell has been one of the leaders speaking publicly in media against Gaybe Baybe's screening during school time. Seems a funny contrast to me.

Well Joining us now, not only the film maker - Maya Newell (and old girl of Burwood high School), but also Shayne Mallard MLC, who gave very strong speech in NSW parliament earlier this week criticising the how way the Daily Telegraph beat up the movies into some sort of Gay and Lesbian political putsch against defenceless kids in state schools.

Here's how the movie sort of starts.