"I'd sat on this McMahon information for decades at that stage, and I had good reason to act … and pursue a complaint to its end, which I hoped would be McMahon being defrocked."
"Letters I acquired as part of the writing of the book indicated that was anything but the truth,"Mr Cotton said.
"To let him into parishes in they way they did was mind-bogglingly bad and stupid practice."
"McMahon was raping and sexually assaulting children over a period of 35 to 40 years. He started in Tasmania in the 50s, when he was still training to be a Christian Brother,"Dr Courtin said.
"Despite knowledge of the abuse by at least the 1990s, Father McMahon's abuse was allowed to continue,"the report said.
"The Archdiocese of Hobart should own up to this situation. If they're not prepared to look into it seriously and make some admissions, they run the risk of this all happening again,"he said.
"For reasons of confidentiality the Archdiocese of Hobart does not publicly comment on individual matters."
"For victim-survivors that's about being seen, that's about an organisation demonstrating that they actually learned and that children in the future will be safer,"Dr Bromfield said.