MELBOURNE, Tuesday. - The Hubbard Association of Scientologists International had been "poorly advised" during and immediately after the 1964-65 inquiry into Scientology, a Supreme Court judge was told today. The allegation was made by an association agent, Mr Ian Kenneth Tampion. In a written submission put to Mr Justice McInerney in the Practice Court he said the Scientologists had developed "a mistrust of the legal profession in Victoria". He said an example of the poor advice given had been the suggestion ...

Scientology was still being practised throughout SA, the public relations officer of the Church of the New Faith (Mr. T. B. Minchin) said yesterday. Scientology is banned under an Act of Parliament passed in 1969. Mr. Minchin said there were about 500 active members and the practice was being conducted "quite openly." The Church of the New Faith had been operating a church for its members in Fullarton since April last year. Although Mr. Minchin declined to discuss the matter in ...

A Perth Petty Sessions magistrate said today that he considered the Church of the New Faith "a religion." Mr C. Zempilas SM made the decision when he granted exemption from National Service to Jonathon Prismall Gellie (24) of Newnham-st., Leederville. Gellie claimed he was a minister of the Church of the New Faith, and as such was entitled to exemption from service under a section of the National Service Act which gave exemption to ministers of religion. Said the SM: "In ...

Two Mebourne judges are being sued by the International Association of Scientologists over the 1964-65 inquiry into Scientology in Victoria. The scientologists claim that the board was biased against them and went beyond its proper terms of reference. A Supreme Court writ was lodged yesterday by the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, c/o Manchester St. Hawthorn, against Kevin Victor Anderson, of Dorrington Ave., Glen Iris, and Gordon Just, of Corby St., North Balwyn. Mr. Justice Anderson is on the Bench of ...

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — A Supreme Court writ seeking damages from a Supreme Court judge and a County Court judge over the Victorian Scientology inquiry was taken out yesterday by the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. The judges are Mr Justice Kevin Victor Anderson, who was appointed the board of inquiry into Scientology on November 27, 1963; and Judge Gordon Just, who was counsel assisting the board. Both were practising barristers at the time of their appointments. The writ, which embraces 157 ...

A conviction against the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International Ltd. on a charge of practising scientology was quashed yesterday by the Full Court in Perth. Magistrate D. J. O'Dea had convicted and fined the association $200 in the Perth Court of Petty Sessions on April 11. It was alleged that between November 13, 1968, and January 28, 1969, the association practised scientology contrary to the Scientology Act, 1968. Mr Justice Burt said in a reserved decision that the association was registered ...

Today and tonight hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Californians will sit down in pairs and stare at one another. One of them will give the other commands such as "Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." The one who is commanded will hold two tin cans attached by wires to an E-meter, a device that measures electrical resistance in the body. The commander will watch a needle on the device's circuit board in the belief that it measures emotional charge. ...

Victoria's scientologists plan to break the law soon when they hold a meeting at which scientology will be taught. Yesterday the president of the Church of Scientology of California in Victoria (Mr. Ian K. Tampion) said members would continue to press for the repeal of the Psychological Practices Act. About 70 people attended a fellowship day held by the Church in Dickens Street, Elwood. Mr. Tampion told the meeting that he had postponed committing an offence against the act. He had ...

RELIGION OR BUSINESS? Practices of Scientology Being Investigated Again By John Dart Times Religion Writer [Picture / Caption: YOUNG INITIATES — The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L. Ron Hubbard.] The mimeographed notice looked more like a secret police communique than a church message. It informed "those concerned" that a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby declared a Suppressive Person and assigned ...

About 80 demonstrators picketed the Australian consulate office in New York today carrying signs reading: "Hitler lives in Australia," and "Australia has crimes against God." The demonstration, against the banning of Scientology in Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia, was peaceful. New Yorkers paid scant attention to the placard-bearers, who marched in a circle outside the building for two hours. The banner signs were puzzling: "Repeal Australia's anti-religion laws," "God? No," and "Australia, The British Alcatraz." But perhaps the most puzzling ...

A group of 20 scientologists demonstrated against the Premier, Sir Henry Bolte, at Essendon Airport today. Sir Henry and Lady Bolte arrived back in Melbourne after a 96-day world trip. The demonstrators held placards. Some said: "What's the next religion to be banned, Sir Henry?" The State Government has banned scientology. One of the demonstrators, Mr I. K. Tampion, wearing a clerical collar and a metal cross around his neck, said the demonstration was by the Church of Scientology of California ...