Senator Nick Xenophon has indicated he might not have used parliamentary privilege to name a priest accused of raping John Hepworth, now an  Anglican Bishop, had he known the man was about to take leave. Adelaide Catholic priest Monsignor Ian Dempsey said it was “totally unfair and unjust” of the independent SA senator to use Read more
Two letters have been sent to Senate president John Hogg about Senator Xenophon’s naming of Msgr Ian Dempsey under Parliamentary privilege. A Senate committee will consider the complaints. One of the letters was from Msgr Dempsey and the other from civil libertarian Terry O’Gorman who is urging an investigation into the naming of the priest, Read more