Baby Azaria Case Earlier Institutional Example

Accelerated intensity fuelling metropolitan causes in Australia adds fuel to the notion that the late Cardinal George Pell fell victim to a public sector excitability stemming from a volatile blend of superstition and moral superiority.

Cardinal Pell became the embodiment of climate denial and vigorously dismissed its proponents as hysterical and in the grip of a “pseudo-religion.”

It was this last critique which ignited a thirst for vengeance which found its epicentre within the Australian non-productive public sector which in Australia is composed of a substantial proportion of those born into the late Cardinals own faith.

This became evident notably in the Australian federal government’s own broadcasting apparatus which blankets the nation in terms of television and radio.

This broadcasting system unreservedly supports the climate beliefs that Cardinal Pell condemned as a contemporary religious manifestation.

It was now that the public sector in Australia acted in chorus to discredit Cardinal Pell who was acknowledged at the time as the second most powerful official in the Vatican after the Pope.

Historical and unsupported charges were brought against Cardinal Pell who returned to Australia to answer them. He ended up in gaol there. All these charges were later dismissed.

The damage to his reputation was though accomplished in the form of televised wild courtroom steps scenes, constant repetition of the unsupported charges which were solemnised in book form.

Cardinal Pell’s own observation of the “pagan” aspect to the climate cause itself took on a curious manifestation when it became obvious that the campaign against Cardinal Pell echoed elements of these earlier times.

As Cardinal Penn underwent his trial by ordeal there was a signal reluctance to balance the hysteria with commentary from the societal forces in place to restore balance.

The Australian government broadcaster signally failed to explain any connection between Cardinal Pell’s persecution and his in their eyes heresy on the matter of climate which until Gaza was the glue that held together Australasian progressives.

Australasia is prone to nationwide hysteria and which is in stark contrast to the stoic matter-of-fact character which is often ascribed to this region of the new world.

A relatively recent example centred on the death in the shadow of Ayers Rock of baby Azaria.

No matter that baby Azaria’s parents who subsequently endured gaol time said that baby Azaria was the victim of a wild dog of the dingo breed known to populate the area around the monolithic rock formation.

Neither was it a coincidence that the rock shortly afterward became imbued with a concentrated religious aura and was rebranded, sanctified, as Uluru.

Neither was it a coincidence that the parents of baby Azaria were demonstrably proven to be utterly innocent of their daughter’s death. It was a dingo it was proved without doubt..

An element stoking the flames of the subsequent national hysteria centred on Cardinal Pell was that the cleric refused to back down on firmly stating his belief that climate had become a substitute for established religion.

“In the past, pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today, they demand a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.”

Cardinal Pell’s subsequent medieval treatment characterises how prone Australia is to retributive mass fervour evidenced by the public sector pile on in the hue and cry.

The episode becomes all the more sinister just because the elements in society that should be talking about it give the impression of not even thinking about it.

There is a reason for this. Having ridden itself of its turbulent priest institutional Australia knows too that it must rid itself of an even less acceptable truism. The one about the Lucky Country’s susceptibility to institutional moral mass fervour.

Ecclesiastics meanwhile cross the road then and now rather than be seen to concede that Cardinal Pell who died last year might have discovered the cause and effect of the evaporation in Australasia of the faith as a meaningful social force.