AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By BELINDA CLEARY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
A church minister has taken on Cardinal George Pell and the Australian government’s treatment of refugees in one carefully worded sign.
The Melbourne Welsh Church’s Minister Sion Gough Hughes has publically questioned the government’s decision to fly refugee babies back to detention while failing to fly Cardinal Pell back to Australia to give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
It reads; ‘Australia – where the government will try to put a sick baby on a plane, but not a sick Cardinal.’
The sign has gone viral online after being posted to Facebook on Monday.
Minister Gough Hughes told Daily Mail Australia the sign is less about Pell then it is refugees.
‘People have taken it to be about Pell, but he is innocent until proven guilty but I do believe he needs to turn up,’ he said.
‘He needs to come and tell the Royal Commission what he knows, we don’t know what he knows so that is the issue.’
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