Sorry, I can't consider an Australian prelate who endorsed the anti-monarchist side in the 1999 referendum "one of the Good Guys."
See Charles Coulombe's article The Monarchy in Australia for a Catholic perspective more traditional than Cardinal Pell's.
Then you are making the perfect the enemy of the good. If Pell's political sense is lacking, that it to be regretted -- but the chief function of any cardinal is to be a papal elector and (in many cases) a metropolitan bishop to the faithful. I have no complaints.