In the wake of Cardinal George Pell’s successful appeal to the High Court of Australia, and his release from jail after 404 days, several books purporting to be “investigative journalism” have appeared about this astonishing miscarriage of justice. All of them have been hostile towards Pell.
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Windschuttle is an historian and editor of
Quadrant, a conservative Australian literary, cultural and political magazine. Ever since Pell was charged in 2017, he welcomed well-researched articles on the case. With the help of this extensive commentary, he has dug far deeper than Louise Milligan, Melissa Davey or Lucie Morrie-Marr, whose quickie books treated Pell as a contemptible villain. The forensic arguments of