AUSTRALIA
The West Australian

Simon Collins, Music Editor
Tuesday, 14 March 2017

Tim Minchin’s controversial call for Cardinal George Pell to face the music has been nominated for Australia’s highest peer-voted songwriting award.

Written in response to Australia’s highest-ranking cleric’s claims he was too ill to give evidence in person at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Come Home (Cardinal Pell) is one of five songs in line for the 2017 APRA Song of the Year.

The song, which raised money to send survivors of abuse to Rome to front the Vatican-based Pell, is nominated alongside compositions from Nick Cave, Amy Shark, Julia Jacklin and D.D Dumbo.

After becoming “infuriated” by Pell’s statements, Minchin wrote and recorded Come Home (Cardinal Pell) in two days before it first aired on television’s The Project in February.