Explosive book back on the shelves after George Pell verdict
Melbourne University Press will put its book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by ABC journalist Louise Milligan back on sale in Victoria, after the former Vatican treasurer was found guilty of child sexual abuse.
Suppression orders had required that the Walkley-award winning book not be sold in Victoria until the court process had finished.
In the book, Milligan pieced together decades of disturbing activities and cover-ups by Pell.
"I wanted people to know what I have known about George Pell," said Milligan on Tuesday.
"We have been waiting for the justice system to run its course. Nothing can undo what has been done but some justice has prevailed."
MUP’s acting chief executive Richard Tegoni said the stories of endurance and suffering Milligan had revealed in her book "now deserve to be read widely".
Former MUP chief executive Louise Adler, who recently left the publisher after the university changed its direction, commissioned Milligan to write the book in 2016.
Milligan had spent more than two years reporting on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse.
Ms Adler said she was proud to have commissioned and published the book, and said Milligan was "a courageous reporter whose integrity, respect for the judicial process and meticulous research contributed to our understanding of the tragedy of institutional child abuse".