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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Martin Farrer

Morning Mail: Pope Francis praises Pell’s ‘wisdom’, Albanese’s PNG mission, battle of the sun kings

George Pell PNG Sun Anthony Albanese Daniil Medvedev Elias Visontay James Marape Mike CannonBrookes Australia Ballarat
Cardinal George Pell at the Vatican in 2017
Cardinal George Pell at the Vatican in 2017. Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Morning, everyone. Nowhere is the legacy of George Pell more controversial and complex than in Ballarat, his hometown but also the place in Australia most associated with historic child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. That’s where we begin our reporting today, while in Rome Pope Francis has paid tribute to the country’s most senior Catholic.

Also today, read how two of the country’s richest men fell out over a solar farm, and listen to five stories about that most Australian of pastimes, being at the beach.

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