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DAN BOX From: The Australian May 10, 2013

A NSW detective who publicly claimed he was ordered to stop investigating child abuse within the Catholic Church co-ordinated his revelation with the ABC, Fairfax Media and a Greens MP as part of a campaign to force a royal commission.

Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox was also given the opportunity to view a transcript of part of a proposed edition of the ABC’s Lateline program, which he successfully requested not be broadcast.

In an email sent to the program’s reporter Suzanne Smith a day before the interview, Inspector Fox wrote: “We can string it out and drip feed . . . it will only give us larger coverage and a much bigger impact.

“Please don’t lose sight of our objective here for the sake of a good, quick story now.”

The part of the program Inspector Fox asked…