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Aug 16, 2005
Scientology lessons in schools — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Liam Houlihan Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) A drug program run by Scientologists and labelled dangerous by medical authorities is being given free rein at dozens of Melbourne schools.
The controversial Narconon group gave a speech at Melbourne High on Sunday and has made classroom presentations at Melbourne schools including MacRobertson Girls High.
The group – which does not disclose its Scientology background to schools – gives students booklets that condemn prescription drugs and equate coffee with heroin.
"All drugs are basically poison . . . Two or ...
Feb 25, 2005
Report by the NSW State Coroner into deaths in custody/police operations — New South Wales Attorney General's Department
Type: Document
Author(s):
John Abernethy Source:
New South Wales Attorney General's Department 336/03 Male aged 40 years died on the 27th February 2003 at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst. Finding handed down on 24 March 2004 at Glebe by NSW State Coroner John Abernethy.
This death has been assessed as a death during a police operation within the meaning of Section 13A, Coroners Act 1980. In those circumstances it has been independently investigated as a Critical Incident in accordance with NSW Police Protocols. This ensures impartiality on the part of the investigative team and ...
Apr 25, 2004
Sect link to MP adviser — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lincoln Wright Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) A SENIOR adviser to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has been linked to the Church of Scientology.
Innes Willox, Mr Downer's chief of staff, is on the Church of Scientology's roll of Australian membership, listed on the Internet.
Like other members named on the roll, Mr Willox also has a personal Scientology website.
His site includes his favourite L. Ron Hubbard quote and other personal details.
Scientology was founded by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s.
Some ...
Apr 13, 2004
Cruise raises millions to detox rescue workers — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News US movie star Tom Cruise has helped raise $US1.2 million to treat emergency workers exposed to toxic materials following the September 11 terrorist strikes in New York. Cruise, 41, pitched in to help raise cash for the alternative treatment for rescuers suffering debilitating effects from toxic exposure in the recovery and clean-up effort following the 2001 attacks in New York. The heart-throb actor, who is a keen member of the Church of Scientology, backed the drive to provide a detox regimen ...
Dec 1, 2003
A Church's Lethal Contract — Razor Magazine
Sep 1, 2003
Scientology and the European Human Rights debate: A reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force study — Marburg Journal of Religion
May 11, 2002
After 22 years, church pays damages to ex-member — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
The Age (Australia) Nearly 22 years ago, Lawrence Wollersheim, a disaffected member of the Church of Scientology, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing the church of mental abuse that pushed him to the brink of suicide. Teams of lawyers and various rulings came and went, all the way to the US Supreme Court. Judgments against the church hit $US30 million ($A55 million), then dropped to $US2.5 million. But the Church of Scientology never paid - until Thursday, when officials wrote a cheque for ...
Mar 22, 2001
DISMISSAL MICHELLE [blacked out] [Collection of documents evidencing disconnection] — Church of Scientology Melbourne Day
Oct 14, 2000
Battlefield Earth — Canberra Times (Australia)
Oct 14, 2000
Little choice but to give flicks the flick — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Oct 10, 2000
Bad guys good to the king of cool — Canberra Times (Australia)
Oct 6, 2000
This star's in the wars — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
Oct 5, 2000
Bizarre Battlefield has B-grade appeal — The Age (Australia)
Oct 1, 2000
Battlefield Earth (M) — Sunday Times (Australia)
Jun 13, 2000
Scientology explained — News Chronicle (Australia)
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News Chronicle (Australia) PEOPLE with questions about religions can find a new book in local libraries. The book, Theology and Practice of a Contemporary Religion: Scientology, has been donated to the Leederville, Floreat, Nedlands and Subiaco libraries to help answer people's questions about the fast-growing religion.
May 21, 2000
Letters: Battle rages — Sunday Times (Australia)
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Sunday Times (Australia) RE Travolta's Battlefield (May 7) which reports on John Travolta's new film about Scientology. Now I've heard it all. Subliminal messages in our movie theatres - what next? LSD in the popcorn as part of some pre-conditioning experiment by the Psychlos? This so-called watchdog, FACTNet, wouldn't be the first small group that has come up with some "controversy" to launch themselves into the spotlight. The only connection between Battlefield Earth and Scientology is the author, L. Ron Hubbard. Mr Hubbard was ...
May 17, 2000
Letters // I Disagree — The West Australian
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The West Australian DEREK PEDLEY was right to point out that the makers of the SBS program on Scientology last week were not followers of the religion (Today, 9/5), but what was not pointed out was that they did not ask any Scientologist about any of the wild allegations they made against the church and individual Scientologists, nor did they back up any of their allegations with any proof. This disgusting program aired by SBS (which violated its own charter to be "sensitive and ...
May 17, 2000
Stay in touch: Critics go into battle — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) [...] If you run into a Scientologist today, don't do the usual thing of crossing the road/city/country to avoid them. Instead, look sympathetically on them, maybe even give them a hug of consolation, for we think there may be some mourning happening among the followers of L. Ron Hubbard. The first reviews are in for the multi-multi-million-dollar film based on one of L. Ron's off-the-planet science-fiction yarns (and no, we don't mean Dianetics), Battlefield Earth , and they don't make for pretty ...
May 9, 2000
Is Scientology above the law? — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Denise Everton Source:
Illawarra Mercury (Australia) John Travolta is a staunch supporter. So are many other Hollywood celebrities and it is from them that The Church of Scientology gets its best publicity. Yet while the promotion comes through association with high-profile names, there is rarely a lot actually discussed about the church. That is set to change with this French documentary (narrated in English and featuring subtitles) that examines the relationship between the Church of Scientology and the law in France, Germany and the United States. Incorporating ...
May 5, 2000
Television: Unmasking Scientology — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
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Illawarra Mercury (Australia) RELIGION in all its forms sparks intense debate but none more so in recent times perhaps than the Church of Scientology. A relatively young religion created by science fiction author Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Scientology's profile has risen sharply with the support of such high-profile acting identities as John Travolta and Juliette Lewis. Yet while most people would have an opinion on the church's ideology, there rarely seems to be much open debate about it in the social arena. That changes next ...
May 4, 2000
Letters: Founder misquoted — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
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Illawarra Mercury (Australia) I REFER to the Mercury (April 1) and the article "Friends friendly for top dollar" by John Michael Howson. Yet again the founder of Scientology, L Ron Hubbard, was misquoted: "If you want to become a millionaire, set up a religion." The actual author of this quote was George Orwell who wrote in a letter to his friend in 1938: "But I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a new religion, and we'll talk it ...
Apr 3, 2000
Interplanetary film wars — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Glenn Whipp Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) [...] What's left after these travesties and Mission to Mars? Two big-budget entries are slated for mid-year. The first, Battlefield Earth, finds Scientologist John Travolta starring in this adaptation of movement founder L. Ron Hubbard's evil alien novel. The script has drawn derision on Internet sites, and photos of Travolta in alien makeup have only made things worse. [...]
Mar 1, 2000
Confronting the Clam Cult — Pelican (Australia)
Feb 14, 2000
Baby hurt in fall — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Jan 18, 2000
Letters / Psychiatrists are to blame — West Australian
Jan 18, 2000
Master of lateral movement finds freedom in expression — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Nov 10, 1999
Sect loses battle to become a charity // Scientology 'is not a religion' — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James Meek Source:
The Guardian (UK) The controversial Church of Scientology had its application to be recognised as a religion turned down yesterday. After more than three years' deliberation, the Charity Commissioners rejected the organisation's claim saying that it did not qualify because it was not a religion and did not benefit the public. Critics of Scientology portray the organisation as a wacky cult that brainwashes individuals and exists to make money. But adherents say such hostility amounts to religious persecution and that Scientology puts them on ...
Sep 20, 1999
No religious agenda — The Big Issue (Australia)
Sep 16, 1999
Gibbering clones the future of Usenet? — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s):
Daniel Rutter Source:
The Australian Imagine, if you will, a public forum where anybody can stand on a soapbox and speak, and everyone can listen to any of the speakers they choose. What you're imagining is, more or less, Usenet. Usenet is an enormous collection of publicly accessible fora where you can post and read messages about more or less everything anyone talks about. Some postings are brilliant, some are less brilliant, some are inane, some are utterly unfathomable. But everyone with Internet access can have ...
Sep 6, 1999
Did cult march on wrong hospital? — The Big Issue (Australia)
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The Big Issue (Australia) The CCHR is widely regarded by anti-cult activists as a front group for the Church of Scientology, a religion established by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Hospitals are not usually the targets of demonstrations. Health care is a controversial subject, but community anger is usually centred on funding issues. So the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights' (CCHR) hundred-strong march on the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Saturday 31 July was already unusual. They were protesting the establishment of a ...
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