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Dec 12, 2009
Senior Scientologist says 'no cover up' — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
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Bronwyn Herbert Source:
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News ELIZABETH JACKSON: The international vice president of the Church of Scientology has responded to allegations that his church is a criminal organisation.
Senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege last month to declare that Scientology is not a religion but a criminal organisation which covers up offences and abuse by its members.
The Church of Scientology's vice president says the allegations have already been investigated.
Bronwyn Herbert reports.
BRONWYN HERBERT: Its status as a religion is fiercely contested, but the Church of ...
Nov 23, 2009
Brother wants answers on Scientologist's suicide — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Emma Rodgers Source:
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News A man whose Scientologist brother committed suicide has urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to allow a parliamentary inquiry into the controversial church. Thirty-year-old Edward McBride killed himself in the Brisbane suburb of Everton Park in February 2007. Mr McBride had been a member of the Church of Scientology for about two years and had paid $25,000 for various courses. A coroner's inquiry into his death heard evidence that members of the church had contacted him 19 times in the days before ...
Nov 23, 2009
Scientologist propaganda sent to 'most schools in Australia' — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop Source:
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News An international group sponsored by the Church of Scientology says it has been targeting children in schools across Australia for at least three years. The Youth For Human Rights group has been distributing DVDs and brochures that spread its message about rights and name Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard as a leader on the issue alongside Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The New South Wales education minister confirmed yesterday that primary schools had been ordered not to hand out the ...
Nov 22, 2009
Scientologists 'targeting' schoolchildren — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop Source:
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News The New South Wales Government says the Church of Scientology is targeting Year 6 students using "marketing" material that claims to promote human rights.
Education Minister Verity Firth has ordered principals not to distribute DVDs and booklets funded by the church and sent to schools by a group called Youth For Human Rights.
The material outlines the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and quotes Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard on a list of "famous human rights leaders".
Ms Firth only ...
Nov 18, 2009
Australian News Coverage [A useful collection of TV media items re. Australian Senator Nick Xenophon] — XenuTV
Apr 30, 2009
[Opposition] leader won't reveal 'fakes' source — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News The South Australian Government is keeping the pressure on Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith to say who gave him fake documents he tried to use against the Premier.
Labor Party leaders say they do not believe any ALP members forged documents to set up Mr Hamilton-Smith.
He has apologised for raising the fake documents in Parliament to claim that the Premier Mike Rann solicited donations from an agency of the Church of Scientology.
SA Transport Minister Pat Conlon says Mr Hamilton-Smith needs ...
Apr 29, 2009
Bolkus threatens to sue over Scientology claim — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News Consultant and former federal minister Nick Bolkus says he is considering taking legal action over accusations that he was involved in payments from the Church of Scientology to the ALP.
South Australia's Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith gave details in State Parliament on Tuesday of emails he said he had received from a Labor Party source.
The emails alleged a $20,000 payment was made to the ALP by a company affiliated with the church.
Mr Bolkus is one of two party members ...
Apr 29, 2009
No record of Scientology donation: ALP — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News The South Australian Government says it is considering pressing charges against whoever gave suspected fake documents to the Opposition.
The Liberals told parliament that emails from within the Labor Party indicated that a company associated with the Church of Scientology donated $20,000 to the ALP after a meeting with the Premier.
Some of the emails are alleged to have come from ALP state secretary Michael Brown.
But he says he did not send them and there is no record of any ...
Oct 30, 2008
Elfman slams Scientology critics — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News US actress and high-profile Scientologist Jenna Elfman has no time for people who criticise the controversial religion and urges people to get their facts straight before judging. Elfman, best-known for her role in the sitcom Dharma And Greg, says people are too quick to judge the church, which boasts celebrity members including Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and John Travolta. "If someone starts talking to me negatively about something they've never actually studied that actual text of, I don't really admire them ...
Sep 30, 2008
Questions raised over Narconon lease on historic building — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Samantha Donovan Source:
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News The Mental Health Council of Australia has strongly criticised Victoria's national parks authority for leasing a historic public building rent free to a drug treatment service connected to Scientology. The council's chief executive says a group with secret treatment methods should not be able to use a public asset at a time when Australia is desperate for community treatment centres. But Narcanon, which follows the precepts of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, says it is just as entitled to lease O'Shannassy ...
Jul 30, 2008
Scientology dad sought help for daughter before stabbings — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News A Sydney judge has found a father's association with Scientology did not affect the treatment of his daughter's mental illness before she stabbed him and her sister to death. The 26-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with killing her father and sister in July last year and inflicting grievous bodily harm on her mother. Justice Michael Grove today found her not guilty by reason of mental illness. The court had previously been told the woman was denied ...
Jul 28, 2008
Murder accused mentally ill, court told — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News A Sydney woman charged with the stabbing murder of her father and sister has pleaded not guilty due to mental illness. The 26-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is charged with murdering her father and younger sister at their Revesby home in Sydney's south-west in July 2007. She has also pleaded not guilty to a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to murder her mother. The court previously heard the woman was diagnosed with a mental ...
Apr 24, 2008
Church of Scientology statement to ABC News — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News The Church of Scientology made it clear from its first contacts with "Nightline" that it would not publicly discuss the ecclesiastical circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Mrs. Hill from Church staff, regardless of the nature of her allegations.
The Church will not discuss matters surrounding Mrs. Hill, because given the thrust of her claims, she has used her name to make an otherwise ecclesiastical issue into a family matter and a personal attack on a family member. The Church will not ...
Apr 4, 2008
Woman pleads not guilty to stabbing Scientologists — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News A Sydney woman has been ordered to stand trial after pleading not guilty to the stabbing murders of her father and sister. The 26-year-old will also defend a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to murder her mother. The attack allegedly happened at the family's Revesby home in Sydney's south-west in July last year. The Supreme Court was told mental health will be an issue at the trial, which will start in July. It is alleged that the woman ...
Mar 25, 2008
Scientology's Anonymous critics: Who are they? / Since January, the church has been targeted by protesters around the world — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: TV
Author(s):
Marcus Baram Source:
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News The controversial group has been labeled secretive, inspirational, dangerous and misunderstood. The Church of Scientology? [Picture]Disguised members of an internet-based group called Anonymous protest near buildings associated with the Church of Scientology on Saturday, March 15, 2008, in Los Angeles. (Chris Weeks/AP Photo) No, it's a mysterious group of masked men and computer hackers called Anonymous who say are committed to dismantling the powerful religious organization renowned for its celebrity members such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Over the past ...
Feb 25, 2008
Media Watch: Tom Cruise goes missing // Reporting on the protest — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: TV
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Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News Watch Tom Cruise goes Missing [G, 2:51min.] (Help):
Play The video But there are some people whose tender feelings receive a lot more consideration from the News Ltd empire. On the same day that News's website carried a link to The Australian's piece about Carey's childhood, it carried another story right next door. Global Scientology protests begin in Australia.
— News.com.au website, Global Scientology protests begin in Australia But what's this? A pixelated poster? What can it have ...
Jan 15, 2008
Aussie publisher pulls Cruise biography — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Jul 12, 2007
Religion not a factor in mental health policy: Govt — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Nov 28, 2006
Young Australians attracted to 'spiritual aerobics' — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
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