We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.

So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will

contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian

true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

And the Anne Mann is a journalist and social philosopher and her new book, Crimes of the Cross, has taught

me an enormous amount about a is specifically about a pedophile network run by members of the Anglican Church in Newcastle in the 1980s and 90s.

It's made me realize that the shocking details of the crimes committed by Catholic clergy have almost blinded me to some of the other

revelations brought into the light by the Royal Commission into institutional responses to

child sexual abuse. This story has many similarities to those

we've heard about the pedophile priest cluster in Balarat and the measures the

Catholic Church and its allies went to to silence victims and protect offenders.

But it also has many differences.

Crucially, Anglican ministers are not required to remain celibate and, you'll hear those in the Newcastle diocese in particular

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