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🚨 Thrilled to finally announce that I'm writing a book on Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church, aka the Moonies, and their remarkable role in 20th century history 🚨

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We have a hall of fame post on our hands

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Easily the greatest paragraph in the history of the English language

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The coolest thing your lawyer can say right before you go to jail

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In asking for a lighter sentence, Tarrio’s lawyers pointed out that he has a history of working undercover with law enforcement.

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My American bf has tried gallantly to understand cricket all summer, but getting his head around the size of the trophy we play for is too much to ask

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They made this country to stop the tyranny of kings but no one said anything about the tyranny of absolute QUEENS

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Migrant workers in Qatar, both male and female, experience shockingly high incidences of rape in their daily working lives. I’ve interviewed them.

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🎙️ Ellie Molloson: “As a girl who grew up in England, I never believed that it would be possible to go out without sexual harassment. Qatar 2022 achieved what I could never have dreamed of. I didn't hear a single cat call in the street. I feel incredibly safe." #FIFAWorldCup

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All is well in Australia

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Brian Houston “hacked” late at night but able to wrestle back his account 16 minutes later to delete the tweet via Hillsong_accountability_3.0 on Insta]

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Usman Khawaja and Pat Cummins saving Australia on Australia Day is a rather delightful turn of events

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No, this isn’t a nazi salute — it’s a standard practice in evangelical prayer. But don’t let that stop you from doing numbers

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Yes, this is a Nazi salute, at a Doug Mastriano campaign event in Pennsylvania. In 2022. Democracy is literally on the ballot in November.

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In a few years, it's gone from being easy to get bulk billed doctors appointments in Sydney to pretty much impossible. How on earth did it go from getting free doctors appointments to costing $40-$120 a pop without becoming a major election issue?

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Been laughing bout this for 48 hours now

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@_Zeets The Hamas-Hezbollah combo on the right pushing Iran into the Bobby Firmino role

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@_Schrami_ I’m aware, “honey”

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A former pastor at ex-NFL player Miles McPherson's evangelical megachurch has been charged with horrific acts of abuse resulting in the death of her adopted daughter (reading the story is hard going)

Girl, 11, Allegedly Endured More than 700 Acts of Abuse, Was Punished for How She Ate Cereal:...

Arabella McCormack, 11, weighed 48 lbs. when she died in 2022.

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Reflecting on my favourite Bolsonaro mishaps: - an intestinal obstruction resulting in 2.2 pounds of shit being sucked out through his nose - hospitalised after 10 straight days of hiccups - contracting covid at least three times in 2020 - bitten by an emu-like bird when ill

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The follow up makes it even funnier

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@ByYourLogic Responding “okay” to the guy introducing himself at the diner

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According to a lawsuit, the alleged perpetrator of the abuse said that there was “demonic activity” in the girl. I fear that the increasing emphasis on spiritual warfare in charismatic churches means that such horrific instances of child abuse will become more common.

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I lived through the insane decade of Australian political coups and let me tell you, none were as funny as this

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Taking a posting hiatus but first I insist that everyone admire the architecture of the Argentinian national library

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Mr Boehly should fly Cristiano to the United States for negotiations

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🚨 EXCL: Chelsea considering Cristiano Ronaldo move. Man Utd currently say not for sale but #CFC monitoring & not ruling out. Mendes talks continue - Boehly/Eghbali intrigued by idea. Tuchel admires 37yo but unclear if he would approve @TheAthleticUK #MUFC

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Ahead of the US midterms, I wrote a piece on the New Apostolic Reformation, a shadowy Christian movement gaining increasing influence in the Republican Party

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Australians knife a PM in 5 minutes and the result is leaked to reporters before the ink is dry, once again the Brits don’t have the psychology

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8 months

A sub-par Australia winning the World Cup, world test championship, retaining the Ashes and sending all of England absolutely insane in one calendar year is as good as it gets 🏆

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A friend who is ~currently offline ~ reckons Trump took the documents to Mar-A-Lago not because he wanted to hide them, but because he wanted to *show them* to people. And we’re not talking Putin here — he’s trying to impress Greg Norman over sweaty bistro chicken

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I’ve returned to this passage every day this week as though it were scripture. Football is an institution, not a commodity

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Australia doesn’t* sledge* anymore* so we outsourced the task of mental disintegration to the English themselves

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This is the bloke who steps straight off the gondola into the arms of the first guy with a piano accordion and winds up paying €60 for tomato spaghetti

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Europe is substantially poorer, more racist, less dynamic, and MUCH less free than the US Food is bland, coffee tastes like shit, the weather is mostly awful, their primary cultural export is tourism, and they have less say in the affairs of the world

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Trump blabbed nuclear secrets to Anthony Pratt, which Pratt then told “at least 45 others, including six journalists, 11 of his company's employees, 10 Australian officials, and three former Australian prime ministers”

Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national after leaving White House: Sources

Months after leaving office, former President Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive info about U.S. nuclear subs with an Australian billionaire, say sources.

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The Trump post is real and correct,

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Don’t invest in women’s football because it makes a few people money, invest in it because that’s the morally right thing to do

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Invest in women. The ROI is here. This crowd is proof.

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The last time Stokes was this mad two blokes were left unconscious outside of a nightclub

Ben Stokes questions Australia’s ‘spirit of the game’ after Bairstow controversy

Ben Stokes questioned Australia’s ‘spirit of the game’ after the controversial dismissal of Jonny Bairstow in England’s gripping second Test defeat at Lord’s

www.theguardian.com

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What’s worse about being in a title race, hoping the teams you loathe win or having to watch City games

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Republic now

Australia’s actions in Ashes Test not in the spirit of cricket, says Rishi Sunak

Spokesperson says PM agrees with Ben Stokes about Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal at Lord’s

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There was a 24 hour window where Elon Musk was buying Manchester United and Rebekah Vardy, Mrs Rabiot and Wanda Icardi were running the dressing room and I’m going to live in that moment forever

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Every guy in the griftosphere reaches the point where they become born again. Russell Brand joins Roger Stone, Mikhaila Peterson, AHA among the recent converts

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Look at this table and tell me CDM isn’t the most critical position in football

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@JohnBrewin_ A friend was recently asked to give an example of good right wing art and he said “Lazio 1998-2000”

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Incredible that these morons have copy-pasted US culture wars onto their own system without pausing to think about how it may work in a local context

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Interestingly, Rees Mogg calls the imposition of mandatory voter ID a gerrymandering scheme that backfired for the Conservatives as it largely affected older people, who are more likely to vote Tory.

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Forget the much drooled-over Rat Boy summer,

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Probably the most horrific paragraph ever written

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@MatthewSitman It shocked me moving here just how bad the lack of consumer protection is, and I’m surprised no one has used it as a political platform

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If we needed further confirmation that I’m morally cheap and massive loser, I cannot stop crying at All or Nothing 😭

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@mikey_747 @MattyCashhhhh England and Spain have an extradition treaty

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Never wanted to go near a boat so much in my life

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A boat has washed on shore near Williams Street. DO NOT GO NEAR THE BOAT. It is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. The information we have is that no one is on board. DO NOT GO NEAR THE BOAT. @MyrtleBeachFire @MyrtleBeachEM @MyrtleBeachGov

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Recalling the greatest newspaper correction in history

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Making Cucharella look like a genius should have a minimum sentence

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Not even 10 years ago, Tony Abbott had to back down from a $5 GP co-payment because it was so unpopular. Turns out that there’s actually bipartisan political support for charging 20x that

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If the Saudis want to buy up western culture then they’re gonna have to deal with Australians turning every event into an absolute sesh

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Surrounded by so many Gen Z. Absolutely pinged off their chops. Already had to give one chick her phone back. Vapes everywhere. Stampede through the gates and got trapped. Probably a sign I’m getting old 😂 #Straya #LIVGolf

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Chelsea finally coming through with some of that promised charity for Ukraine 👏👏👏

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🚨 Chelsea have reached an agreement with Shakhtar Donetsk for Mykhailo Mudryk. €70m + €30m add-ons. 7+ year contract agreed. Leaving Turkey for London to undergo medical. Not signed yet but done deal. W/ @SJohnsonSport @AdamCrafton_ @TheAthleticFC #CFC

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Azerbaijan recently ethnically cleansed Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh — but c’mon fellas let’s get some chicks on this climate change panel

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Hillsong church leaders treating themselves to $20,000 holidays while they exploited scores of vulnerable young women working as ‘volunteer’ nannies and housekeepers is so infuriating

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Cries of “Bairstow is a moron” ring around Australia after he is correctly dismissed by a keeper who actually knows the laws of the game

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Cries of 'cheat, cheat, cheat' ring around Lord's after Bairstow dismissed in most controversial of circumstances. Surprised a team as good as Australia needs to resort to that.

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@MatthewSitman You get the sense that a lot of people in the party would rather scold voters than win elections

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After England spiritually won the first test and morally won the second, they’re already preparing to claim a historical victory in the third

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Rewatched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, my god it’s a perfect film, there cannot possibly be a more perfect film

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Saudi Arabia did 9/11 and can’t even get off the bench, this manager has got to go

Danel Ben Namer | דנאל בן נמר

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Being liberal & anti-Israel is an old paradigm. The world has changed. Change too.

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We owe that sculptor a huge apology

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Imagine a future with worse graphics than Wii bowling and none of the fun

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Just two guys geeking out over space 🪐

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We don’t even need memes, the Brits are doing it all for us

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EXCLUSIVE: Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that the Queen has died

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@BrandyLJensen One of the great days online

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For no particular reason, I have just remembered this tweet.

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@Rob_Stott I think that’s what makes it so funny

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@NickEvershed Incredible pacing

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The thing is Dawkins, and all the New Atheists getting into Christianity, is that they have a Disneyland idea of cathedrals and evensong that is vanishing. I suspect they’d feel as alien in a south London Nigerian Pentecostal church as they would in a mosque

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I’ve seen enough — let’s award England the metaphysical Ashes now

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“Soon Britain will just be a gloomy Italy, halfway between museum and nursing home, with nothing to offer the young but emigration” This is a brilliant, brilliant piece of writing on the UK’s decline.

Britain needs Macmillan, not Thatcher

None of the Tory candidates inspires hope for the future

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Everything else aside, you gotta admit that Prigozhin is a world class poster

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In his latest verbal attack, Prigozhin tells the Russian Defence Ministry to "stop lying immediately" and says its actions will lead to a "global tragedy for Russia"

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Remember when Alan Jones said that Wallabies lost a test match because of Indiana Jones

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@gronk_gronk Or as they call it, East Johannesburg

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@hannahgais People need to go to church and learn some values, says a group of people who don’t go to church

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Bolsonaro going for Farage’s title of world’s most divorced man

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For the last couple of years, I've been interviewing pastors and churchgoers in the Gulf states — UAE, Saudi, Qatar, etc — about how migrant workers are turning to evangelical churches as de facto unions and crisis centres

Spiritual union: why Gulf migrants are turning to evangelical Christianity

Pentecostalism is quietly thriving, with pastors saying churches are helping low-paid workers in crisis

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@flglmn Curb literally just finished, he was in the final fucking episode

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🚨🚨🚨Hillsong is being sued by a former worker in its finance department for being stood down when she tried to blow the whistle on serious financial irregularities 🚨🚨🚨

Whistleblower lawsuit alleges 'cowboy culture' and financial misconduct inside Hillsong Church

A whistleblower suing Hillsong in the Federal Court alleges the megachurch moved millions of dollars in payments through overseas entities to avoid scrutiny by the Australian charities regulator.

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Tina Turner was an adopted cultural icon in Australia because every kid in school has to learn a line dance to Nutbush City Limits (don't ask), and she used to come out and sing Simply The Best at the rugby league grand final

Tina Turner - The Best - Sydney - 1993

Tina Turner - The Best - Sydney - 1993Tina Turner Online: https://www.tina-turner.nlFacebook: Tina Turner Online: https://www.facebook.com/tinaturneronlineTw...

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@Sturgeons_Law Dying on PT due to allergies in other people’s laundry detergent sounds real

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Brian Houston will be speaking out about being ousted from Hillsong… on the very same day he’s due to enter his plea for the charge of concealing his father’s pedophilia…

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My longread on Brian Houston's trial and the downfall of Hillsong Church is out now for @THEMONTHLY , with insiders revealing new detail on the fallout with Carl Lentz, a culture of rampant racism and sexual abuse, and the quest for the almighty dollar

Hillsong and the life of Brian

The Hillsong founder lost control, first of his judgement, then of his authority and finally of his church itself – now, on criminal trial, he’s desperate to control his story

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@_NoelleCook I'm wondering if they draw a lot of counsellors from churches, there's so much qanon-adjacent stuff floating around charismatic circles

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The counterterrorism cops who entrapped a 13 year old autistic kid with an IQ of 71 need to be fired and publically shamed

How Australian undercover police ‘fed’ an autistic 13-year-old’s fixation with Islamic State

Court finds counter-terrorism unit’s conduct fell ‘profoundly short’ of minimum standards expected of law enforcement officers

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Religion without faith is definitely becoming a thing

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Jordan Peterson has gone full evangelical, these right-wing grifters are so predictable

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Worst thing about American sports: the owners being presented with the trophy

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I went to Arizona to spend time with a group who practice a unique form of deliverance — Pentecostal exorcism — which involves calling out demons and heaving into buckets. What I found was a lot of people seeking spiritual help for very earthly problems

Demons be gone: meeting America’s new exorcists

Deliverance from demons is a booming practice among evangelical Christians, promising freedom from afflictions ranging from addiction to cancer

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This is genuinely insane and the most ‘only in Sydney’ story possible

Alameddine crime family associate charged over FriendlyJordies firebombing

A man has been charged in Waverley Court in connection to the arson attack on the home of YouTuber Jordan Shanks.

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Has anyone written a history of TEDx? I understand that it has an open-source ethos, but it's remarkable, when researching various crooks and charlatans, how many of them have built their reputations by having delivered a TEDx talk.

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@Arsenal @socios You’re a multibillion dollar corporation fleecing supporters into buying a worthless financial instruments for what, exactly?

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Even supporting Arsenal couldn’t prepare me for how stupid that goal was to concede. I’d rather go out on penalties.

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@RobertSkvarla The concept of spiritual warfare has become a huge, huge thing in Pentecostal and evangelical movements, where talking about infection with demons is now mainstream

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Northern hemisphere folks don’t know what they’re missing, summer Christmas is just so good

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Brian Houston’s acquittal is not a surprise to the legal experts I spoke to. The legal case was never especially strong. The moral case, however, is well outlined in the Royal Commission:

Hillsong's Brian Houston failed to report abuse and had conflict of interest – royal commission

Royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse finds multiple failings with Hillsong Church’s response

www.theguardian.com

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