Michael Bradley
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194 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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Or all this bloomin' rein.
is the reason why sometimes I feel so gloomy here in paradise.
Yeah, so the Christian Brothers approached the Supreme Court of New South Wales and asked for a moratorium on all current civil claims in process against the order.
And the Supreme Court has awarded that moratorium, meaning that all those current cases that are unresolved are put on pause.
And the basis for that application was that
The Christian Brothers said, we're running out of money.
We don't have enough money to cover all of the anticipated payouts.
And we're proposing to enter into some form of scheme with our remaining creditors, including these claimants, to arrange payments that presumably will be substantially less than what might have been ordered to pay by the court.
Yeah, Christian Brothers are an order of the Catholic Church.
They were established as a sort of primarily educational order of brothers to educate boys.
Quite a lot of schools in Australia, as elsewhere, have been Christian Brothers schools.
Waverley College in Sydney, Trinity College in Perth,
St Joseph's Nudgee College in Brisbane are some of the better known ones in Australia.
The Royal Commission identified that a number of
Orders within the Catholic Church had particularly appalling records of institutional child abuse.
And Christian Brothers was one of the absolute worst.
It was the worst in terms of raw numbers, so well over 1,000 complainants came forward to the Royal Commission and said that they had been abused as children in Christian Brothers schools from the 1950s onwards.
483 were named as perpetrators of child sexual abuse.
What that meant was that of everyone who had been an ordained Christian brother from 1950 until the Royal Commission, 22% of them were named alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse.
The Commission identified they had allowed serial predators to operate for many decades under their umbrella.
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