In today’s newsletter: cathedral in Ballarat to hold mass for late cardinal, PM aims for new security deal in Port Moresby and billionaires fall out over solar farm
Cardinal George Pell at the Vatican in 2017.Last modified on Wed 11 Jan 2023 19.58 GMT
Morning, everyone. Nowhere is the legacy of George Pell more controversial and complex than in Ballarat, his hometown but also the place in Australia most associated with historic child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. That’s where we begin our reporting today, while in Rome Pope Francis has paid tribute to the country’s most senior Catholic.
Also today, read how two of the country’s richest men fell out over a solar farm, and listen to five stories about that most Australian of pastimes, being at the beach.
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