The Victorian premier has ruled out a state memorial for George Pell, saying it would be too triggering. Daniel Andrews also confirmed he would not attend the funeral, and his thoughts remain with survivors. 9News MORE:
Andrews said his government would not be holding a state memorial service and had not received any requests to do so since"I couldn't think of anything that would be more distressing for victim-survivors than that.""We see you, we believe you, we support you and you're at the centre of not only our thoughts, not only our words, but our actions," he said.
"We will never ever forget victim-survivors of institutional child sex abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church. "We should never forget, never ever forget that predator brothers and priests were systematically moved around, knowingly, as part of a strategy, from one working class parish to the next."
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