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#18228552 at 2023-01-26 09:08:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #27: THEY ARE IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE Edition
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'Unfinished business': Ballarat abuse survivor to tie a ribbon at St Mary's before George Pell funeral
Paul Auchettl says the cathedral should not cut ribbons down as they are a powerful voice for people who were silenced
Christopher Knaus - 26 Jan 2023
When the Ballarat abuse survivor Paul Auchettl flies to Sydney to tie ribbons to the fence outside St Mary's Cathedral ahead of George Pell's funeral, he'll be thinking of a promise the late cardinal made to him last time they met. In 2016, Auchettl flew to Rome as part of a group of survivors who met with Pell during his evidence to the child abuse royal commission.
Auchettl wanted to make Pell understand the profound damage the church's failings had caused to their home town of Ballarat. In their private meeting, Auchettl says, Pell promised to do something to help.
Nothing changed. Ballarat, the epicentre of the nation's clergy abuse crisis, still suffers an enduring trauma, one that imprints itself through suicide, shame and anger.
"To me it's unfinished business," Auchettl says. "So I'm going to tie ribbons on the fence for the people who are too sick to be there, who have died and can't be there, and for families who are too angry to be there. I'd like to tie ribbons for them."
In the lead-up to Pell's funeral at Sydney's St Mary's next week, survivors and their supporters have been visiting the cathedral to leave ribbons on its fence, emulating the approach taken at St Patrick's in Ballarat.
Church staff have been cutting them down. The response has prompted much criticism from survivors and their supporters, who have described the church's actions as "petty" and another example of its decision to protect the Catholic brand at the expense of survivors.
"In this sense, ribbons are sacred, they should not be cut down or taken," Auchettl says.
"If you go up to someone who's tying a ribbon, they'll tell you exactly why they're doing it: the ribbons have become a powerful voice for people who were silenced for so long.
"I don't want to be disrespectful at George's funeral, I want him to have a peaceful service. But I want to alert people that there is this unfinished business that he was still yet to do and that, in a sense, he has failed."
Auchettl attended St Alipius primary school and was molested by his year six teacher, the notorious paedophile Christian Brother Robert Best.
Auchettl's younger brother Peter was also abused and took his own life more than a decade ago.
He wants the church to recognise that clergy abuse and related suicides have created secondary victims - usually family members.
"We can't even talk about this, it's taboo, it's too difficult, people are so angry. Yet this is what happens in this sorry story, we're shut down," he says. "The ribbons become a way of saying 'we need to know about these stories'."
Loud Fence, the group which first advocated placing ribbons at St Patrick's Cathedral in Ballarat, says it is damaging for survivors to have ribbons removed.
"We tend to say now that every ribbon has a voice, and I feel that," the group's founder, Maureen Hatcher, said last week.
"Once you tie a ribbon to the fence, that's what it becomes. It becomes a symbol of a survivor or a victim, and it's their voice, whether they've been able to speak out or not, it's there."
Simon Hunt, the satirist sometimes known as Pauline Pantsdown, has been tying ribbons to the St Mary's fence for more than a week and has used his social media following to encourage others to do the same.
Asked on Wednesday whether church staff were continuing to remove the ribbons, he said: "Every time. I've only been there once when there was still anything major left. It's been 10 days and I've been there on eight of those days. Sometimes there's a couple of scraps left and other times it's just completely cleaned."
The Guardian contacted the archdiocese of Sydney and St Mary's for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/26/unfinished-business-ballarat-abuse-survivor-to-tie-a-ribbon-at-st-marys-before-george-pell-funeral
#10706277 at 2020-09-19 08:40:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
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Craig Kelly denies spreading 'dangerous disinformation'
As the pandemic stretches on, no one has walked the line between criticising the Victorian government and openly nodding to this audience like Craig Kelly. He has long been known for speaking to the beliefs of his party's right flank, and has made a career out of mocking climate change "exaggeration", denying its link to last summer's bushfires and accusing the Bureau of Meteorology of falsifying weather data.
But the Liberal party backbencher has expanded his repertoire during the Covid-19 pandemic to include advocacy for the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19, a campaign against what he calls "health bureaucrats", and a barrage of criticism against the Victorian government. In videos for an online streaming site called the Cave, Kelly has called for the removal of Daniel Andrews from office, saying Victoria was "being run by a megalomanic [who is] getting his totalitarian kicks out of keeping 5m people in captivity".
Founded by Australian filmmaker Simon Hunter, the executive director of the Sydney Film School, the Cave also promotes videos from the likes of Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens and Gavin McInnes, the founder of the far-right Proud Boys group.
Kelly's tireless online campaigning has undoubtedly found him a new and thriving audience. His Facebook following has grown by almost 37% since June, and of Australia's federal MPs only the prime minister, Scott Morrison, has enjoyed more "interactions" on posts shared to the social media site. Kelly's posts are also regularly among the most shared social media posts on the site from Australia.
His posts are regularly shared by groups associated with both the far right and individuals connected to the ever-mutating conspiracy movement. Earlier this month, the US conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer David "Avocado" Wolfe encouraged his 16,000 Telegram subscribers (he has more than 12m followers on Facebook) to sign a petition supporting Kelly over his advocacy for hydroxychloroquine.
Similarly, in August, the former celebrity chef Pete Evans shared a speech by Kelly promoting the drug to his 1.5m Facebook followers. Evans regularly posts favourably about a range of discredited ideas including risks of 5G exposure, while platforming anti-vaxxers and pushing content aligned to Qanon.
Hydroxychloroquine, which has also been pushed by Donald Trump, has been shown to be ineffective and potentially harmful when used to treat the virus. The Therapeutic Goods Administration, the federal health body responsible for evaluating and approving medicines for use in Australia, recommends the drug not be used to treat Covid-19 outside of clinical trials and has restricted its use outside of the conditions for which it is approved.
The acting chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, has said simply that "it doesn't work".
Kelly's advocacy for the drug has prompted significant criticism. Last month the shadow health minister, Chris Bowen, accused Kelly of spreading "dangerous disinformation" for continuing to push the use of the drug, and the usually staid deputy chief health officer Nick Coatsworth has rebuked his advocacy for it. "I think Australians are very clear which Kelly should be listened to in Covid-19, and that is Paul Kelly," he previously said.
In an interview with Guardian Australia, Kelly denied engaging in misinformation, saying he was not intimately familiar with online conspiracy theory groups including QAnon. In online videos, he's also railed against criticism he has received for promoting hydroxychloroquine, accusing the media of "implying I was engaging in peddling conspiracy theories, defunct facts [and] dangerous facts. All I've been doing is reporting what the medical experts are saying around the world".
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