9 Feb 2021

Media commentator Andrew Holden

From Nine To Noon, 11:50 am on 9 February 2021

Some of Australia's largest media companies have admitted breaching a suppression order when reporting on the verdicts of  Cardinal George Pell's 2018 child sex abuse trial but other contempt charges have been dismissed along with all charges against individual reporters and editors.

This file photo taken on February 27, 2019 shows Australian Cardinal George Pell (C) making his way to the court in Melbourne. - Cardinal George Pell will walk free from jail after winning a long-running battle to overturn his child sex abuse convictions in Australia's High Court on April 7, 2020.

Photo: AFP

Andrew Holden is a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne.