Cardinal Pell holds 'hard, honest' meeting with Ballarat victims and other top stories.

• Cardinal Pell holds 'hard, honest' meeting with Ballarat victims

  

  Cardinal George Pell has meet with Ballarat victims of child sexual abuse, in what he called a “hard, honest and occasionally emotional meeting." It came after four days of testimony to the Royal Commission via videolink in Rome, where Cardinal Pell continuously denied personal wrongdoing and knowledge of paedophile priests in Victoria in the 1970s and ‘80s, and alleged several Catholic officials who did have knowledge deceived him for decades. Reading from a statement after meeting a group..

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• St Alipius Parish School take part in Schools Clean Up Australia Day ...

  St Alipius Parish School pupils and staff pitched in to weed out rubbish from a public reserve on Friday. CARING: St Alipius Parish School pupil Isabelle Gray and sustainability co-ordinator Dan Pollard collect litter at McKenzie Reserve. Picture: Dylan Burns ST ALIPIUS Parish School pupils and staff pitched in to weed out rubbish from a public reserve on Friday.Eighty grades 3 and 4 pupils collected rubbish at McKenzie Reserve near King Street as part of Schools Clean Up Day, whi..

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• Australia: Nation unites over abuses at Ballarat

  

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• Victoria Craw and Charles Miranda in RomeNews Corp Australia ...

  

  I owe a lot to the people of Ballarat: Pell5:37Cardinal Pell had an 'emotional' meeting with abuse survivors, where he explained he owed a lot to Ballarat. Public statement ... Cardinal Pell reads a statement to the media after a private meeting with the clergy victims at Hotel Quirinale in Rome. Picture: Ella PellegriniVictoria Craw and Charles Miranda in RomeNews Corp Australia NetworkCARDINAL Pell has had an “honest and occasionally emotional meeting” with survivors of child sex abuse in Rom..

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• Aussies stun Great Britain in pursuit for gold

  

  Cardinal George Pell has emerged from a meeting with Ballarat victims of ... of pedophile priests in the Ballarat diocese in the 1970s when he served there.

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• Warren Ellis a winner at French Cesars

  

  All eyesmay have been on George Miller and his six Academy Awards this week, but the 41st French Césars delivered a big Australian prize at Théâtre du Châtelet. Warren Ellis took out the César for best original music for Mustang, France’s Oscar nominee, which won four Césars in all.  The Paris-based musician who was born in Ballarat in 1965 and has lived in the French capital since 1998, kissed his French wife Delphine Ciampi before heading to the stage where he thanked her “for helping me beli..

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• Piano for Pleasure reignites

  

  Piano for Pleasure reignites March 4, 2016, 11:56 a.m. THERE’s something special about the ringing out of piano keys. Dedication: Bron Sozanski, Jing Zhang, Cooper Harwood and Christopher Milne will perform at the Art Gallery of Ballarat this Sunday.THERE’s something special about the ringing out of piano keys.Perhaps the beauty of piano playing explains the lasting endurance of favourites like Rhapsody in Blue or Für Elise.The first Piano for Pleasu..

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• Big Steps for Tiny Feet 2016 | Photos

  

  ALFREDTON PRIMARY SCHOOL: From back left, Tarqin Aston, Dianne Bartolome, Nate Duggin, Hannah Elliott, Luca Fields, Gabriel Glover, Rylee Groten, Mia-Kate Hattam, Zdenko Kladaric, Kadyn Lee and William Ward. Front, Freya Leela Vimal, Denver Minster, Braydan Muhlhan, Ava Prenc, Sophie Read, Cooper Robertson, Georgi Ryan, Charlize Seehusen, Mason Singleton and Capri Stevenson. ALFREDTON PRIMARY SCHOOL: From back left, Nicholas Baulch, Sophie Britt, Alana Burns, Gage Carstens, Brody Duke, Connor F..

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• 'We Would Always Look At Ways To Reduce Cost And Time': NBN ...

  

  A leaked internal document recently revealed that the company building the nbn has been trialling a reliable, cheaper fibre to the premises technology — which has the potential to reach of an all-fibre system to the home. “It’s a matter of public record that FTTP is part of our technology mix and is the most expensive and the hardest to build,” a spokesperson for nbn told Gizmodo today. “So naturally we would always look at ways to reduce cost and time.” STRINGER Image / Shutterstock.com The ..

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