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A deeply divisive figure during his life, the Cardinal is no less polarising in death.

Today the possible re-creation of the thylacine generates worldwide headlines. By contrast the last thylacine’s death did not generate any headlines at all

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In 1973, vice squad detectives seized over 57 tons of sex books in Victoria as part of a crusade against “dirty material” which, according to Victoria’s Chief Secretary, would lead to “the depravity and the smirching of normal human relationships.”