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Mar 17, 2010
Athena under attack for not disclosing Scientology links — Central (Sidney, Australia)
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Robert Burton-Bradley Source:
Central (Sidney, Australia) NSW Greens MLC Dr John Kaye has launched another attack on the Athena School in Newtown after he made a formal complaint about a leaflet from the school, which failed to fully reveal its links to Scientology. “The leaflet has been distributed to homes in Sydney’s Inner West. It fails to warn parents that this is a private school that uses teaching methods developed by the Scientology organisation,” Dr Kaye said. The Greens are asking the consumer watchdog to direct the ...
Mar 9, 2010
School rapped over failure to declare Scientology links — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anna Patty Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A LEAFLET advertising the Athena School in Newtown has been referred to the state's consumer watchdog for allegedly obscuring the school's link to Scientology. The NSW Greens yesterday lodged a complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, claiming the leaflet represented false advertising and a potential breach of the Trade Practices Act. The Applied Scholastics logo, the education arm of Scientology, appears in the bottom corner of the leaflet, which includes the words ''education services and materials based on the ...
Dec 9, 2009
Sydney MP blasts school grant over Scientology link — Central (Sidney, Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Burton-Bradley Source:
Central (Sidney, Australia) A Newtown School which teaches Scientology beliefs has received $1.4 million in government funding for less than 50 students.
Greens MP John Kaye blasted State and Federal governments for providing the Athena School with $751,519 in ongoing funding until 2012, $135,287 for a new library, $114,713 for classroom refits and $50,000 for other works.
According to the school’s website it teaches from The Way to Happiness, written by Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Mr Kaye said responses to questions on notice ...
Dec 9, 2009
Today Tonight: Scientology secrets — Channel 7 (Australia)More: Youtube
Dec 2, 2009
Schools linked to Scientology will get $1.6m — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Anna Patty Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) FEWER than 100 children will benefit from more than $1.6 million in Federal Government subsidies over four years to two schools strongly linked to the Scientology movement. The Athena School in Newtown will receive $751,519 in recurrent funding from the Federal Government for the 2009 to 2012 funding period. It has also been allocated $135,287 for a new library, $114,713 for primary classroom refurbishments and $50,000 for other refurbishments under the Rudd Government's Building the Education Revolution program. The Athena School ...
Nov 24, 2009
Rudd's concerns no bar to funds for school that uses Hubbard text — Sidney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Anna Patty Source:
Sidney Morning Herald (Australia) 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 ...
Jul 2, 2007
Hubbard's Scientology 'built on nonsense' — Herald Sun (Australia)
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Jill Singer Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) WITH the Packer wedding over — and guest Tom Cruise embrolied in a "religious" controversy — Scientology is once again on the agenda, writes Jill Singer. SCIENTOLOGY is being talked about again because of certain prominent supporters. Germany is reluctant to have Scientology's most famous adherent, Tom Cruise, play one of its country's greatest heroes. Valkyrie, the planned film, centres on Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg's heroic role in attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The problem for Cruise is that Germany is ...
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