AUSTRALIA
The Australian
JOHN FERGUSON, VICTORIAN POLITICAL EDITOR THE AUSTRALIAN JANUARY 07, 2014
ONE of the nation’s most respected Catholics has lashed out at Victoria Police’s conduct during the state’s parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse, singling out for criticism a former high-ranking member of the now defunct Office of Police Integrity.
Father Frank Brennan called into question the behaviour by now Deputy Commissioner Graham Ashton and accused the force of mounting a campaign of spin as part of unfair and false attacks on the church. He dismissed as “bunkum” key elements of Mr Ashton’s commentary.
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