The charging of Cardinal George Pell with “historical sexual assault offences”, as the police described them, is the culmination of a lengthy media campaign led by the Fairfax press and the ABC to bring down Cardinal Pell.
The police investigation of allegations against Cardinal Pell was the subject of a recent book, Cardinal: the Rise and Fall of George Pell, written by ABC journalist Louise Milligan, which traversed the matters which are now the subject of court action.
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