of Public Prosecutions had been reported to be considering a challenge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales but on 20 December, announced that there were no reasonable prospects of success of appeal on errors of law. In September 2019 the fourth previously unreleased volume of the 2014 Special Commission of Enquiry into allegations of cover-up of sexual abuse claims in the Dicocese of Maitland-Newcastle commissioned by Margaret Cuneen SC found that Archbishop Wilson was an "unsatisfactory and unimpressive witness" and that he gave evidence the commissioners considered to be "untruthful", "self serving and implausable". Views In 2017, during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey regarding same-sex marriage, Wilson was on the "No" side, defining marriage as being only "between a man and a woman" with "its fundamental role in raising children as part of God’s divine plan for the human family". Death Wilson died on 17 January 2021. His health had been poor during his last years and he suffered cancer, but his death was described as "sudden". References 1950 births 2021 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Australia Overturned convictions in Australia Roman Catholic archbishops of Adelaide People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill Roman Catholic bishops of Wollongong Roman Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle