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Kate Ceberano, the U.N. and a HERO — Epoch Times
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Epoch Times Singers Kate Ceberano and Christine Anu headlined a Melbourne celebration for the 59th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
"Victoria, being that it has the charter for human rights and responsibilities, it's time now to make the country aware of this and to have a human rights bill as well for the entire country," said Kate Ceberano, ambassador for Youth for Human Rights Australia.
"That would be very important, and I'm here to stand behind that."
During the free ...
Nov 16, 2007
Tax ruling boosts churches, charities — The Age (Australia)
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Barney Zwartz Source:
The Age (Australia) IN A decision anxiously awaited by thousands of churches and charities around Australia, the full bench of the Federal Court has ruled that businesses they run to fund their charities need not pay tax. The ruling means that charities may seek millions of dollars back from the Australian Taxation Office and may venture into new businesses, according to tax experts. Tax lawyer Duncan Baxter said the outcome, delivered on Wednesday, was doubly helpful for charities, because they won the case and ...
Oct 29, 2007
Parent anger at religious 'advice' — The Advertiser
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Xanthe Kleinig Source:
The Advertiser UNIFORMED police distributed Church of Scientology propaganda at Whyalla High School, contrary to guidelines for religious education. A team of police officers visiting the school showed classes a DVD on living a moral life and distributed a booklet entitled "Whyalla High School presents the way to happiness, a common-sense guide for better living", written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. One outraged parent who did not wish to be named said she had explicitly told the school her children were not ...
Oct 16, 2007
Woman accused of murder denied bail — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A WOMAN accused of stabbing to death her Scientologist father and teenage sister was suffering a psychotic episode and is likely to mount a mental illness defence, her doctor said. The 25-year-old, who cannot be named, is facing two counts of murder and a third of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to murder over a stabbing at her south-western Sydney home on July 5. The woman, who has been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder, allegedly fatally stabbed her 53-year-old father ...
Sep 28, 2007
Scientologists given accused's psychiatric file — The Australian
Sep 25, 2007
Murder accused seeks mental unit transfer — The Australian
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Dan Box Source:
The Australian A SYDNEY woman charged with stabbing her father and sister to death in their suburban home is seeking to be released to a hospital for patients with mental illnesses. The 25-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was diagnosed with a psychotic illness last year but was allegedly denied treatment by her parents because of their belief in Scientology. In a brief hearing at Burwood Local Court in Sydney's inner-west yesterday, the woman's barrister, John Stratton SC, said he would ...
Sep 5, 2007
Belgium charges Scientologists with extortion — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Sep 5, 2007
Scientologists charged in Belgium — The Age (Australia)
Jul 19, 2007
Woman recovers from 'Scientology' stabbing — Herald Sun (Australia)More: news.com.au
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Herald Sun (Australia) A SYDNEY woman allegedly stabbed by her daughter in an attack that killed two other family members has been released from hospital. The 52-year-old mother of six, who cannot be named, has been recovering in hospital since the deadly attack at the family home in Revesby, in Sydney's south-west, on July 6. A St George Hospital spokeswoman said the woman was discharged yesterday. The woman's 25-year-old daughter is accused of fatally stabbing her 53-year-old father and 15-year-old sister and injuring her ...
Jul 14, 2007
Accused killer was denied treatment — The Australian
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Elizabeth Wynhausen ,
Dan Box Source:
The Australian THE Sydney woman accused of murdering her father and sister last week was discharged from a hospital psychiatric unit after a magistrate refused a request from medical staff that she receive further treatment. The 25-year-old woman from the southwest suburb of Revesby was admitted to Bankstown Hospital for involuntary psychiatric treatment late last year. The Australian can reveal that when the hospital sought an order to continue that treatment in the community, the visiting magistrate refused to grant this. The reasons ...
Jul 14, 2007
Religious mind games — The Australian
Jul 12, 2007
Attractive help and a hasty exit — The Australian
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Michael McKenna Source:
The Australian IT was Hollywood, so it was bound to follow the script. Two minutes after walking through the ornate gates of the world famous Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre, an exquisitely renovated 1920s chateau-style, former hotel overlooking Los Angeles, I came face-to-face with my first Scientologist. He was impressive, tall, broad-shouldered and impeccably groomed with a set of blindingly white teeth. He looked like an actor who'd play a secret service agent.
Jul 12, 2007
Inside a mad-made religion — The Australian
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Hedley Thomas Source:
The Australian BY his own admission, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, whose impenetrably obscure writings about thetans would evolve over a half-century into the multi-billon-dollar celebrity-speckled commercial business known as the Church of Scientology, was mad. "There is an interview I have where they ask Ron Hubbard, 'Are you mad?', and he says: 'Yes, I am,"' says Raphael Aron, director of Australia's Cult Counselling Centre. "He saw his madness as a quality and as thinking outside the square." In 1999, when Aron wrote Cults: Too ...
Jul 12, 2007
Religion not a factor in mental health policy: Govt — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Jul 12, 2007
Secret Scientology letter war exposed — News.com.au
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Joe Hildebrand Source:
News.com.au SCIENTOLOGISTS have been bombarding NSW MPs with letters urging them not to make psychiatric drugs more available as part of an orchestrated campaign to stamp out their use.
But not one of more than 120 letters obtained by the Daily Telegraph identifies the author as a Scientologist despite many coming from its inner-west offices.
The move has raised serious concerns about religious groups or cults lobbying governments and politicians for a change in the law without identifying their links.
The practice ...
Jul 11, 2007
Alleged family murderer too ill for court — News.com.auMore: news.com.au
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News.com.au AN accused murderer allegedly denied medical treatment because of her parents' belief in Scientology was too ill to face a Sydney court today. The 25-year-old woman, who cannot be named, is accused of killing her father and her 15-year-old sister and seriously injuring her mother during a stabbing attack at the family home in Revesby, in Sydney's south-west, on Thursday. During an earlier court appearance, it was alleged the woman's parents refused to allow her follow-up treatment after she was diagnosed ...
Jul 11, 2007
Church says science is fiction — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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Michelle Cazzulino Source:
Daily Telegraph (Australia) THE Church of Scientology was labelled "flat-earthers" yesterday as it defended its controversial stance on mental health. A psychiatric report tendered to Bankstown Local Court on Monday revealed a 25-year-old woman accused of killing her sister and father and seriously injuring her mother had been denied access to drugs because of her family's Scientology views. Australian Church of Scientology vice-president Cyrus Brooks described the organisation's link to the killings as a "red herring". "The woman was actually under the drugs, she ...
Jul 11, 2007
Church's no-drug doctrine 'risky' — The Australian
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Sarah Elks Source:
The Australian THE medical community has condemned the Church of Scientology for its "harmful" views on the treatment of mental illnesses following an alleged double murder by a woman who claims she was denied psychological drugs because of religious beliefs. The woman, who is charged with murdering her father and young sister, was allegedly denied the treatment by her parents because of their Scientology beliefs, a Sydney court heard on Monday. Scientology rejects psychiatry and psychology as means for treating mental illness. The ...
Jul 11, 2007
Scientologists blasted as flat-earthers — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Dylan Welch Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) SCIENTOLOGISTS were condemned yesterday as "flat-earthers", following statements in court that an alleged murderer was denied psychiatric treatment because of her family's Scientologist beliefs. The vice-president of the Australian Church of Scientology, Cyrus Brooks, told ABC radio the Scientology link to the killings was "a bit of a red herring". "The woman was actually under the drugs; she was on drugs at the time of the incident. She was also under the care of a psychiatrist … since January," Mr Brooks ...
Jul 11, 2007
Scientology the cult of disbelief — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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Michelle Cazzulino Source:
Daily Telegraph (Australia) ARTHUR and Lawana Beals knew their son Gary was in trouble. He had been tormented for years by voices in his head but he had always shunned their advice to seek psychiatric care. On March 15, 1989, the 32-year-old broke. Grabbing a butcher knife, he stabbed Lawana before turning the knife on Arthur. Bleeding from her injuries, Mrs Beals tried to defend her husband before fleeing the house and calling police. Arthur Beals was dead by the time authorities arrived. Three ...
Jul 10, 2007
A Scientology double-murder — Seven Network
Jul 10, 2007
Accused family killer was 'denied treatment by Scientologist parents' — The Guardian (UK)
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Barbara McMahon Source:
The Guardian (UK) A woman accused of killing her father and sister and injuring her mother was denied psychiatric treatment by her parents who were Scientologists, a court heard yesterday. They declined the treatment after the 25-year-old woman, who cannot be named, was diagnosed with a psychotic illness last year and instead gave her medication they got from America. Dr Mark Cross, consultant psychiatrist and clinical director of the Liverpool and Fairfield Mental Health Services, said it was not "psychiatric in nature". The woman, ...
Jul 10, 2007
Accused killer was 'denied therapy' — The Australian
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James Madden Source:
The Australian A SYDNEY woman accused of the stabbing murders of her father and sister was allegedly denied psychiatric treatment last year because of her parents' Scientology beliefs. The 25-year-old woman, who cannot be named, appeared briefly in Sydney's Bankstown Local Court yesterday, charged over the murders at her family home in Revesby in the city's southwest last Thursday. The woman has also been charged with committing grievous bodily harm on her 52-year-old mother, who ran to a neighbour's house and raised the ...
Jul 10, 2007
Church of Scientology denies stabbed man 'a recruiter' — News.com.au
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News.com.au THE Church of Scientology last night denied the Sydney man who was allegedly stabbed to death by his psychotic daughter after refusing her psychiatric drugs was a top recruiter for the church. A man with the same name as the dead father is listed on the Church of Scientology's "Honour Roll" in the 2002 Impact magazine which glorifies members worldwide for their efforts in "signing more than 20 members to the church" or for donating $US20,000 ($23,200) or more. The man's ...
Jul 10, 2007
Scientologists 'flat earthers' — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Dylan Welch Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Scientologists were condemned today as "flat earthers", following revelations in court that an alleged murderer was denied psychiatric treatment due to her family's Scientologist beliefs. Speaking on ABC Radio, Australian Church of Scientology vice-president Cyrus Brooks said the Scientology link to the killings was "a bit of a red herring". "The woman was actually under the drugs, she was on drugs at the time of the incident. She was also under the care of a psychiatrist ... since January," he said. ...
Jul 10, 2007
Scientology cited in killings — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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David Braithwaite Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) THE young woman needed psychiatric care, and she knew it. She tried to get help twice, but her Scientologist parents had a religious objection to psychiatric intervention. They denied her the treatment she wanted, then dosed the 25-year-old with their own medicine, specially imported from the US. Finally, as her mental health worsened three weeks ago, they crumbled and let her take anti-psychotic drugs she had been prescribed. But it was too late. The unfolding tragedy came to its bloody head ...
Jul 10, 2007
Scientology link to family killing — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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Evelyn Yamine Source:
Daily Telegraph (Australia) A WOMAN charged with murdering her father and sister was allegedly forced to stop taking psychiatric drugs by her family because of their Church of Scientology beliefs. Bankstown Local Court heard yesterday the woman's parents asked her to stop taking the drugs and denied her access to mental health treatment because it went against the controversial church's anti-drugs stance. The woman, 25, faced court yesterday charged with the stabbing murders of her father, 53, and sister, 15, in their Revesby home ...
Jul 10, 2007
Sect to reject role in deaths — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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Fiona Connolly Source:
Daily Telegraph (Australia) THE Church of Scientology last night denied the Sydney man who was allegedly stabbed to death by his psychotic daughter after refusing her psychiatric drugs was a top recruiter for the church. A man with the same name as the dead father is listed on the Church of Scientology's "Honor Roll" in the 2002 Impact magazine which glorifies members worldwide for their efforts in "signing more than 20 members to the church" or for donating $US20,000 or more. The man's daughter, ...
Jul 9, 2007
'I just butchered my family' — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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David Braithwaite Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) The parents of a woman accused of murdering her father and sister apparently declined psychiatric treatment for her last year because of their Scientology beliefs, a report tendered in court states. And a police version of events tendered to the court outlined the nightmarish scenario faced by the family's neighbours following the alleged murders. The psychiatric report on the 25-year-old woman, who is also charged with committing grievous bodily harm on her mother at Revesby in Sydney's west last Thursday, was ...
Jul 9, 2007
Accused 'butchered' Scientologist family, court told — The Australian
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The Australian A SYDNEY woman accused of fatally stabbing her father, sister and injuring her mother was denied psychiatric treatment by her parents who were Scientologists, a court was told today. The 24-year-old woman, who cannot be named, was diagnosed with a psychotic illness in late 2006 and recommended follow-up treatment at Bankstown Hospital, in Sydney's south-west. Dr Mark Cross, the consultant psychiatrist and clinical director of Liverpool and Fairfield Mental Health Services, said the woman's parents refused this treatment. “She had a ...
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