Michael Bradley
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194 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Michael Bradley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The only thing the courts and the legal system can offer them is compensation.
And it's the only thing that the institutions are willing to provide because they're clearly not actually sorry.
So for that to be closed off...
to be told now, well, actually, you're not going to get your day in court because the defendant is crying poor, and then to learn, well, actually, the reason they're poor is because they've given all their assets away from their right hand to their left hand, and I'm sorry, you can't get out the left hand.
It would be an absolutely devastating blow to the remaining survivors who are now looking at probably recovering a fraction of what they should be entitled to.
Yeah, I think there's a couple of things going on here.
One is...
In the broader context of the Catholic Church, what the Church has consistently demonstrated before and since the Royal Commission is its unwillingness to accept responsibility for the harm that it has done.
In Australia, for example, through the leadership of George Pell and the Melbourne response, and it's used all kinds of legal tactics through the courts in recent years.
The one thing it hasn't done at any point is stood up and gone.
you know what, this is on us.
The other thing is that there's a kind of pragmatic argument that seems to be run out, which is a sort of, yeah, well, if the church paid the full financial price, it would go broke and that would be a bad thing.
because the church is a good thing.
So the same applies in sort of smaller scale to the Christian Brothers.
Christian Brothers is a good thing because it's a religious order that does good in the community, runs schools and whatever, provides pastoral care.
It's not in the public interest for it to cease to exist, which it would do if it went broke.
And some people think that's a good argument.
The counter argument to that is, well, if that is the actual consequence of the wrong they've done,
then that should be right.
Like if it's not the institution paying the price, it's the victims.
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