Jesuit Offenders Intro.
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    Peter Beer s.j.
  Noel Bradford s.j.
  Willi Kovac
  John Byrne s.j.
  Joseph Craig s.j.
  Richard Galbraith s.j.
Paul Schulze s.j.
Brenton Lewis s.j.
W. "Bill" Marum
Eldon Hogan
  Tim. Carter s.j.
Philip. Wallbridge s.j.
  G. (Mac) Larkin s.j.
Richard (Donal) Lane s.j.
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Brian Purcell s.j.
  Stan Hogan s.j.
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  J.R. Boylan s.j.
Michael O’Mahoney s.j.
  Victor Higgs s.j.
  Peter Quin s.j.
  Celso Romanin s.j.
Brian O'Reilly
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James McInerny s.j.
David Rankin s.j.
  Patrick O'Sullivan s.j.
Lawrence Leonard s.j.
  Paul McMahon
  Leo Flynn SJ
  Stephen Hamra
  Philip Astley SJ
  Colin Fearon
  Kevin Carroll s.j.
  Peter Bohrsmann
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Alleged Sex Abuser

Philip Astley SJ

(Born 1921 Deceased 16 June, 1997 Age 76)
1948-50 Burke Hall (regency)
1951-54 Canisius College, Pymble, Sydney.
1955-56 at Burke Hall as a scholastic (and some years before)
!957 Tertianship in Sth. Australia.
1958-61 St. Ignatius College, Adelaide.
!962-63 England
1964-69 Loyola College, Watsonia, Melbourne.
1970-97 Campion College, Kew, Victoria.
1997 Deceased.


Melbourne General Cemetary headstone.
Philip Astley was the brother of well known author Thea Astley.

At Burke Hall dduring 1956 he assaulted one boy up to a dozen times. These were serious assaults but stopped short of rape.
On one occassion he called the boy's home on a saturday in the Christmas holidays and told the boy to come to the school to meet with the Headmaster.
His father drove him to the school and waited while the boy went inside, the Headmaster was not there, Astley assaulted the boy for about an hour, then his father drove him home. He was unable to tell his parents.
The boy suffered alone and was badly affected.

From Thea Astley's recollections Philip Astley SJ was openly gay and had a number of "mental breakdowns" in his life.


Astley, Thea, 'To my brother' (1945), Thea Astley: Selected poems, edited by Taylor, Cheryl (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2017), p. 52.

Thea Astley, It's raining in Mango, p. 226.
Soon after his cancer diagnosis, Philip holidayed briefly with Thea and Jack at Cambewarra (Lamb, Thea Astley, pp. 257–8).
Thanking them for their hospitality on a card dated 29 June 1994, he wrote:
'You are blest to have such a place to call home, after your travels, and busy days. I hope you like this card, a reminder of how inspiring Australian distances are.' The card features a reproduction of Streeton's 'Still glides the stream and shall for ever glide', an assertion of immortality inspired by William Wordsworth's 'After-thought' (c. 1806–20).

Philip SJ Aus Dictionary of Jesuit Bigraphy entry.
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