"Annoying" T-shirts are OK in Melbourne

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Catholic Church sex-abuse victims, together with their supporters and advocates, are holding a protest outside Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral each Sunday morning during the lead-up to World Youth Day events. Unlike New South Wales, Victoria has not enacted laws to ban "annoying" T-shirts or placards that criticise the Catholic Church's record of sexual abuse against youth.
The Melbourne sex-abuse victims are demanding that the Australian bishops should become more genuine, and less evasive, in responding to victims. The victims also want to have a meeting with the Pope, during his Australian visit, as well as receiving a papal apology.

On Sunday 6 July 2008, the protest by sex-abuse victims co-incided with another protest outside the same cathedral, staged by members of Melbourne's Iraqi Chaldean Catholic community, who are objecting to their Iraqi chaplain being transferred to Sydney.

At the July 6 gathering, both of the protesting groups called for a meeting with Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart.

A spokesman for Archbishop Hart told the media that Hart had no plans to meet victims of clergy sexual abuse. Hart's response is typical of the evasiveness of the Australian bishops.

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