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Rudd's concerns no bar to funds for school that uses Hubbard text

Title: Rudd's concerns no bar to funds for school that uses Hubbard text
Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Publisher: Sidney Morning Herald (Australia)
Author: Anna Patty
Main source: smh.com.au

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THE PRIME MINISTER, Kevin Rudd, has expressed concern about the Church of Scientology but will provide subsidies worth more than $1 million to a Sydney school that promotes the teaching of the church's founder, L.Ron Hubbard. Mr Rudd said he shared some of the concerns of the independent senator Nick Xenophon, who used parliamentary privilege last week to level allegations of torture, perjury and financial coercion against the church. Newtown's Athena School is licensed by Applied Scholastics International, which is strongly ... [Read the rest at smh.com.au]