Shane Anthony Mackinlay (born 5 June 1965) is an Australian Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Sandhurst since 2019.

In 1998 he became parish priest of Sebastopol, secretary to Bishop Peter Connors and a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University.

Until he was named a bishop in 2019, he served a parish in Bungaree from 2005 and another in Gordon from 2009 and headed the Advisory Council of Ballarat from 2010.

[3] In September 2012, when the church submitted its report to the inquiry, Mackinlay said it had been difficult for the church to recognise the reality and extent of child abuse because "We had a very strong clerical culture which made it very difficult both for laypeople, for the families of these victims, for people in our schools, for people in our parishes and certainly for people in leadership and authority to accept that priests and religious [that is, members of religious orders] could do these evil things.

"[4] The next year he was criticised by inquiry officials after he traced the origins of the abuse crisis to the social mores of the 1960s and 1970s and attempts to lower the age of consent.