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Murphy: not our function to decide on true religion

Title: Murphy: not our function to decide on true religion
Date: Wednesday, 14 March 1973
Publisher: The Australian
Main source: suburbia.net

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THE Federal Attorney-General, Senator Murphy, said yesterday he thought requirements on the Government to recognise religious bodies should be dropped. He told the Senate he thought the system was "bad" and "unhealthy," and the relevant clauses should be taken off the statute books. The former Attorney-General, Senator Ivor Greenwood (Lib, Vic) asked if Senator Murphy was aware of a report on the practice of Scientology, prepared by Mr K. Anderson, QC, now a judge of the Victorian Supreme Court. He said ... [Read the rest at suburbia.net]