AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX From: The Australian June 26, 2013
A CATHOLIC bishop ordered the release of internal church documents that ultimately led police to investigate some of the church’s most senior clerics over the alleged cover-up of child abuse committed by priests.
During 2009, a NSW state government inquiry into the alleged cover-up has heard, the then Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Michael Malone, ordered the documents be provided to a victim of this abuse.
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