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John A. Brown
Toowoomba
Queensland
Australia 4350

Email: john@mybrokensociety.com

Saturday, 20th December, 2008





It is with great regret that I write to seek your assistance in obtaining public opologies in regards serious breaches of the sworn oaths of both the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd and the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce.

On 17 July 2008 the Prime Minister responded to a question posed by David Speers of SKY News.

SPEERS: Just quickly Prime Minister your meeting the Pope today. The apology issue, the victims of sex abuse within the church. How important is an apology from the Pope in your view?

PM: This is a matter for the church and I respect the internal judgements of the church. I don’t stand outside the church and provide them with public lectures in terms of how they should behave. I’ve noted carefully what his Holiness has said in the United States. Obviously that was a source of great comfort and healing in the United States. I’m like all Australians very much looking forward to what the Pope has to say here in Australia as well, as I am to my own conversation with the Pope later this morning.

reference: https://pmtranscripts.dpmc.gov.au/release/transcript-16017
http://www.pm.gov.au/media/Interview/2008/interview_0363.cfm

The Prime Ministers words leave no doubt that an apology by the Pope and the sexual abuse of Australian citizens by Catholic priests are clearly matters for the Catholic church.

Since this unfortunate response I have sought a retraction and an apology from the Prime Minister, however to this time no response has been forthcoming in that regard. I have also communicated with the Governor General seeking a retraction, apology and intervention, however her response has been that protocol does not permit her to intervene. No further responses to subsequent communications to both the Prime Minister and the Governor General have been received to this date.

As a citizen of Australia I believe that both the Prime Minister and the Governor General have failed the people of Australia and in doing so have breached their sworn oaths to truly serve the Commonwealth of Australia, her land and her people.  In the Prime Ministers instance this failure is evident through his deferral of the criminal matters of the sexual abuse of citizens of Australia committed in Australia to the Pope as head of the Catholic Church or as the head of a foreign nation. The Governor General also failed to truly serve the Commonwealth of Australia, her land and her people through failing to uphold her sworn oath to Her Majesty The Queen and to the people of Australia.

As one of the many citizens of Australia who has been subjected to sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church I find it is both abhorrent and in clear breach of the principals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to both hear and to experience the individual abandonment of the right to justice before the law in Australia and to experience the abandonment of the principals of the Commonwealth of Australia as determined by the sworn oaths of office by both the Prime Minister and the Governor General.

The perceived right of the Catholic Church by both the Prime Minister and the Governor General to deal with in whatever manner it chooses those who have been sexually abused by members of the Church is a clear act of abandonment of the principals by which we all attempt to live by and does put the right, the responsibility and the authority of the Catholic Church and or the head of a foreign nation before the rights and the law of the Commonwealth of Australia and in doing so this places the rights of the Catholic Church as a foreign nation before and above all member nations and their peoples as members of the Commonwealth.

I believe that a public retraction and a public apology by both the Prime Minister and the Governor General of Australia is the appropriate manner to rectify the continuation of these mythical beliefs of both the Prime Minister and the Governor General else they should both be brought to account for their abandonment of their sworn oaths to the people of Australia and to the people of the Commonwealth for how else will the people of Australia and the people of the Commonwealth know which it is that they should swear their allegiance to. Australia, or the Catholic church.












John A. Brown