Australian Senator Claims Former Prime Minister Is Suspected Paedophile

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A former Australian prime minister is on a list of 28 “alleged paedophiles” that Liberal senator Bill Heffernan says forms part of a police document.

Many of the people named in the documents were “prominent” people Senator Heffernan said: “They were delivered to me by a police agency some time ago because no one seems to want to deal with them.”

News com.au reports:

Senator Heffernan didn’t name any names but called on Attorney-General George Brandis to expand the child abuse royal commission so that it includes the legal fraternity.

He told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Tuesday that he had provided the commission with documents, one naming the alleged paedophiles including “a whole lot of prominent people”.

Senator Heffernan is a vociferous campaigner against paedophiles, but his information hasn’t always been right.

In 2002 he used parliamentary privilege to falsely accuse a judge of using commonwealth cars to procure young men for sex. He said there was sadly a compromise at the highest levels.

“There is a former prime minister on this list and it is a police document,” he said.

Senator Heffernan said the documents, delivered to him by a police agency some time ago, were very disturbing.

“No one seems to want to deal with them,” he said.

“It’s not so much the secrets that’s the problem. It’s when a group such as the 28 people on this page keep each other’s secrets.”

Senator Heffernan said the Wood royal commission in the 1990s indicated it was going to explore which members of the Sydney legal fraternity used to attend Costellos, the boy brothel club in Kings Cross. The commission, however, did not look into Costellos.

“A lot of them are still practising,” he said.

Mr Brandis said just because someone’s name appeared on a list didn’t make them guilty.

He advised Senator Heffernan to go to the current child abuse royal commission, which would decide if the information was something it could inquire into.

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