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Why I fled Scientology — Sidney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Maxine Frith Source:
Sidney Morning Herald (Australia) [Picture / Caption: Science friction ... former high-ranking Scientologist David Graham has gone public with his concerns about the religion and what he considers a denial of human rights Helen Nezdropa Photo: Helen Nezdropa] AN AUSTRALIAN man who was a former high-ranking member of the Church of Scientology is calling for the religion to be "totally dismantled" because of the human rights abuses he says it inflicts on its followers. David Graham has gone public after years of keeping quiet when ...
Feb 18, 2008
Scientologist stabbing trial to go ahead — Herald Sun (Australia)
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Herald Sun (Australia) A Sydney woman will stand trial on charges of murdering her Scientologist father and teenage sister. 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 frenzied stabbing at her southwestern Sydney home in July last year. It is alleged that the woman, who has been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder, fatally stabbed her 53-year-old father and 15-year-old sister in a psychotic rage at the ...
Feb 10, 2008
Scientology protests start across Australia — Herald Sun (Australia)
Jan 17, 2008
Quackery's envoy: the gospel on Cruise — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 15, 2008
Publisher dumps Tom Cruise book — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 13, 2008
Bookshops won't stock Tom's tale — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 7, 2008
Scientologists 'threatened to blackmail Nic' — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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 5, 2007
Belgium charges Scientologists with extortion — Sydney Morning Herald (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 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 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 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
Religion's rise in the stars — Herald Sun (Australia)
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Carla Danaher Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) VICTORIA'S Scientology population has almost doubled in a decade, figures reveal. There are 629 Scientologists in Victoria, compared with 324 in 1996. Census data prepared for the Herald Sun shows that Melbourne's Yarra Ranges and Whitehorse areas are the state's Scientology capitals. Australia-wide, there were 2507 Scientologists in 2006, up from 1489 a decade ago. Experts say the religion's popularity is in line with the growth of other alternative religions and has been boosted significantly by Scientology's celebrity links. High-profile Scientologists ...
Jul 9, 2007
Scientology 'stopped accused killer getting help' — Herald Sun (Australia)
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Katherine Danks Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) 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 southwest. 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 ...
Jul 8, 2007
Dead girl hoped to have a big family — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Angela Cuming Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) STABBING victim Kathryn Walicki, 15, loved her sister Linda "with all her heart", a family friend said yesterday. A touching tribute to Kathryn, who was killed along with the girl's father Michael, 52, at their Revesby home on Wednesday, described her as a "beautiful and gorgeous girl" who loved her family above all else. "She loved Linda with all her heart and it upset her like nothing else to see her in her condition," Bethany Derley said. Linda, 25, and Kathryn's ...
Jul 7, 2007
'It's not her fault, she's sick': mother's cry after family tragedy — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Jordan Baker Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) IT WAS a picture of suburban harmony on a sunny afternoon: two neighbours, a man and a woman, both mowing their front lawns in a leafy part of Revesby. But in a horrific few minutes, order turned to chaos, leaving two members of a family dead, one seriously injured and another under arrest. As he mowed on Thursday, a man heard trouble next door. Soon his neighbour staggered into his yard with stab wounds to her stomach and back, crying for ...
Jul 6, 2007
Daughter held after two stabbing deaths — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Jordan Baker ,
David Braithwaite Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A woman walked to her neighbour's house in a quiet area of Revesby yesterday afternoon covered in blood and believed to have been stabbed in the chest. The woman had fled a crime scene and was asking her neighbours to call police. Officers arrived at an address on Hydrae Street soon after, about 4pm, and found an unspeakable scene. The woman's husband and teenage daughter had been stabbed to death. Another of the woman's daughters was wandering nearby streets, covered in ...
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 ...
Mar 28, 2007
Unwitting high-schoolers lured to forum run by Scientologists — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A HUMAN rights youth forum at Parliament House in Sydney promoted the views of the Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and was organised by a group linked to the Church of Scientology. In a kit given to students, Hubbard's photograph was more prominent than those of the human rights activists Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Thomas Jefferson. Hubbard's quotes were littered through the material. The Church of Scientology is the major sponsor of Youth for Human Rights Australia, ...
Aug 16, 2005
Scientology lessons in schools — Herald Sun (Australia)
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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 ...
Apr 25, 2004
Sect link to MP adviser — Herald Sun (Australia)
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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 ...
Oct 14, 2000
Little choice but to give flicks the flick — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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 ...
Apr 3, 2000
Interplanetary film wars — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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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. [...]
Jan 18, 2000
Master of lateral movement finds freedom in expression — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jul 4, 1999
Young disciples — Sun Herald (Australia)
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Sun Herald (Australia) The Church of Scientology is using six-year-olds to hand out leaflets on Sydney streets. The church says the children are members of its Chinese congregation, who are distributing anti-drug fliers outside the George Street cinemas. Sydney Scientologist PR Linda Fitzpatrick says the church is interested in recruiting children as "drug-free ambassadors".
Mar 14, 1999
Soul Sisters — Sun Herald (Australia)
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Sun Herald (Australia) Scientologist Kate Ceberano is rumoured to be appearing in the Channel 7 comedy 'Dharma And Greg.' It seems that while travelling in the US recently Ceberano met soulmate and star of the show Jenna Elfman and the pair hit it off.
Jul 5, 1998
Church persecuted — Sun Herald (Australia)
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Sun Herald (Australia) CLARIFICATION is required regarding the article on Scientology (June 21), as no German court decision exists which states that Scientology is not a religion, while 36 local and regional courts there have held that it is a bona fide religious community. It appears that the German courts have had to shoulder the whole burden of being objective and just. The Government inquiry on new religions was roundly condemned by parliamentarians and scholars and solidly lampooned in Spiegel magazine as "a kindergarten ...
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