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Monday, February 24

Newspaper appeals crime reporter's PTSD payout

A Melbourne newspaper must wait to learn if it has successfully appealed a $180,000 payout made to a former journalist traumatised by covering gruesome crimes.

George Pell still considering High Court appeal

No decision has yet been made on whether Cardinal George Pell will appeal his child sexual abuse convictions to the High Court, a spokeswoman for the cleric says, despite reports to the contrary.

Cardinal George Pell will likely lose the Order of Australia he received from Governor-General Michael Michael Jeffrey in 2005. Photo: AAP/Alan Porritt

Pell to be stripped of Order of Australia

Catholic Cardinal George Pell will be stripped of his Order of Australia after losing an appeal against his child sex abuse conviction.

George Pell looks to High Court as his appeal is rejected

Cardinal George Pell has lost his appeal and will remain in jail after his bid to quash his shock conviction for sexually abusing two choirboys was rejected today.

George Pell appeal court told victim was "credible, reliable"

Evidence from George Pell’s surviving sexual assault victim was so moving it relieved any doubt the jury had about his reliability or credibility, prosecutors say.

Appeal court told "impossible" for George Pell to have abused boys

Cardinal and sex offender George Pell’s bid for freedom will continue today, as prosecutors defend a jury’s decision to convict him for sexually abusing two teenage choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990s.

George Pell appeal begins against child sex conviction

Disgraced cardinal George Pell believes there were more than a dozen solid obstacles that should have prevented his conviction for sexually abusing two teenage boys in the 1990s.